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In everyday life there does not seem to be anything unusual in speaking of the “character” of colors. We may speak of a delicate blue, a vivid red, a lively yellow, a naive green. Colors mean something to us; they have a kind of personality, more or less to be compared with the human personality. The ancient Egyptian word iwn for “color” later came to mean also the character of a living being (82,414). Mantegazza even speaks of the “soul” of a color.
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Kouwer, B.J. (1949). Introduction. In: Colors and Their Character. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8906-4_1
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