colours-in-culture

What is this ?

A pure javascript plugin to get the culture meanings for a color.

Demo: http://codepen.io/tfrere/pen/VpMWwv

How to use

 
var ColoursInCulture = require("colours-in-culture");
 
var result = new ColoursInCulture.getCultureColorFeelings("#7c7b7a", "japanese");
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 4));
 
/**
 * Outputs :
 *
 * {
 *   closestColor: {
 *     hex: "#7c7b7a",
 *     name: "grey"
 *   },
 *   cultureFeelings: [
 *      "staid,
 *      "intelligence",
 *      "reliability",
 *      "old age",
 *      "conservative",
 *      "modesty"
 *    ]
 *  }
 */
 
 

Sources

This is based on the excellent work of David McCandless http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/

The original work document is Here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kdEOmMxo-Shy2gGlUpPe_Low3s27ZXIw15hybMmtMDU/edit#gid=0

Pantone: Communicating With Colour http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966638328/titb-20/ John Gage: Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520226119/titb-20/ ColorMatters http://www.colormatters.com/search.html BrandCurve http://www.brandcurve.com/color-meanings-around-the-world/ About http://webdesign.about.com/od/color/a/bl_colorculture.htm