Ask HN: What are the colors of "productive" and "leisure"?

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by mg • 14 years ago

4 9 14 years ago

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Im writing an app that tracks the times when you are productive and when you are lazy. It has 2 states that I want to represent by color: "productive" and "leisure". Which colors would you assign to these two states?

Swizec2• 14 years ago

For me productive is either green or dark blue. I don't put leisure in Klok so it doesn't have a colour.

no_gravity• 14 years ago

Yeah, green is what I tend to for productive. As a sign to "go on!". So I will probably make leisure red. Even though it might be a bit strange to have such a strong color for a nice time.

Swizec2• 14 years ago

Red, for me, has always been school/education ... maybe because I started assigning the colours when I was still in high school.

Wilduck• 14 years ago

I conceive of leisure as either sky-blue or blank white.

mnicole• 14 years ago

Productive: Orange (construction = work) Leisure: Light blue (sky = watching the clouds)

Delphiki• 14 years ago

Productive - Green

Leisure - Blue

expralitemonk• 14 years ago

Leisure: ocean blue. Productive: muted red.

alid• 14 years ago

There's some great articles on the psychology of colour which may help you decide. Here's one: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/175428

My suggestion: Productive: Yellow (stimulates energy), Leisure: Turquoise (associated with tropical water, and pairs well with yellow)

arunprabu• 14 years ago

Green will refresh you and thus you will be productive n creative. Blue will also be productive. light blue and white for relaxed feeling. Purple n rose will destroy men's productivity and any good company will lose all its sheen as it happened for yahoo.

Ask HN: What are the colors of "productive" and "leisure"?

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