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15 Luminous Facts About Color Yellow
Lance Armstrong said “Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I am here.”
Yellow is the most luminous of all the colors of the spectrum. It’s the color that captures our attention more than any other color.
All the world over, yellow is associated with the sun and its life-giving warmth. Yellow also stands for caution, and it’s used for traffic warning signs and traffic signals in nearly every country. Yellow is optimism and the cheerfulness of a sunny day.
Here are 15 Luminous Facts About Color Yellow.
- In 1967, New York City ordered all of the taxis to be painted yellow to help cut down on unofficial drivers and make official taxicabs more readily recognizable.
2. In Japan, yellow is the color of courage and in Egypt, yellow is the color of mourning.