Q & A from the Queen of Color
Posted by cpoole on March 3, 2009
Q:
Hey Catherine,
Hope things are well. I had lunch with Christy today and we both had noticed “teal” is starting to show up everywhere. Christy recalled you had said something about it in one of your classes with but couldn’t remember what you had to say about it. So now I’m curious as to what you had to say about it. Geez, I just noticed my Gmail account has a teal color scheme. hmm….
A:
It does not surprise me that teal is becoming prominent now in the current environment. I had lunch with a woman’s group several week’s ago and we all laughed, over half showing up in teal and cobalt blues! What does this say?
Teal is a color of healing, it holds the healing and communicative qualities of blue coupled with the renewal and resurgent qualities of green. Together, blue and green create a wonderful healing color. What does it heal? relationships first and foremost, but also issues with communication, the heart center and the throat center. In a sense it can help you use healing words, so it is a good color for teachers and counselors.
In today’s hostile environment, wrought with fear and financial challenges, use the cool calming color of teal to bring about calm healing. It is a nice color to accent your website or your resume and we often see it within the health field.
Thanks for the great question!
