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  2. List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender ...

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    There was a time when we thought children were not readily affected by color, so we used baby blue for a boy's room and pink for a girl's. Today, the psychologist tells us.... [88] 1950: USA: Reno Evening Gazette, April 26, 1950, Gazette's Little University, Modern Etiquette. Q. How did the custom of pink for a girl and blue for a boy originate? A.

  3. Gendered associations of pink and blue - Wikipedia

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    According to Jo Paoletti, who spent two decades studying the history of pink and blue gender-coding, there were no particular color associations for girls and boys at the turn of the 20th century. There was no agreement among manufacturers about which colors were feminine or masculine, or whether there were any such colors at all. [1] [2]

  4. Color code - Wikipedia

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    The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long-distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication. [1] The United Kingdom adopted a color code scheme for such communication wherein red signified danger and white signified safety, with other colors having similar assignments of meaning.

  5. The history and meaning behind Women's History Month colors

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    Here's the history and meaning behind Women's history month colors: purple, green, white and gold. ... the color green represents nature. “There are deep meanings associated with it as it brings ...

  6. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    In US and European public opinion polls it is the most popular color, chosen by almost half of both men and women as their favorite color. [6] The same surveys also show that blue is the color most associated with the masculine, just ahead of black, and was also the color most associated with intelligence, knowledge, calm, and concentration. [5]

  7. Blue - Wikipedia

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    This is the effect of atmospheric perspective; the farther an object is away from the viewer, the less contrast there is between the object and its background colour, which is usually blue. In a painting where different parts of the composition are blue, green and red, the blue will appear to be more distant, and the red closer to the viewer.

  8. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other being green-blue," Osterman goes on.

  9. Color code (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Color code or color coding may refer to: Color code, standardized mappings from systems of colors to meanings, as in traffic lights; Color coding technology for visualization, methods of choosing meanings for colors in information visualization; Color-coding, a technique for speeding up pattern matching algorithms by randomly assigning colors ...