LIST 162) A guest list, by Brittany Watson: 10 Pops of & Facts About Yellow

Brittany Watson, author of the blog, The House That Lars Built, writes:

I don't claim to have a favorite color--much too restricting. But, somehow, I can't deny a teeny, and sometimes huge, dash of yellow. Here's a collection of yellows I've been collecting for the past few years.

1. During Elizabethan times, English law dictated who could wear the color yellow.

{photo from Blueprint magazine. RIP}

2. Traditionally, yellow symbolizes renewal and hope...

{photo via Hygge & West}

3. ...although yellow is also associated with envy, greed, and treachery. Judas Iscariot is often portrayed wearing yellow.

{photo via Design*Sponge}

4. Yellow fever, yellow journalism, yellow streak down your back, yellow (cowardly).

{photo from Blueprint magazine}

5. Yellow is found in banana squashes, corn, yellow peppers, sweet potatoes, bananas, lemons, grapefruit, and pineapples.

{photo via Lacoste}

6. To the ancient Greeks, yellow denoted air.

{photo from Domino magazine. Also RIP.}

7. Leonardo da Vinci wrote that yellow represented earth.

{photo from the J. Crew catalog, 2006}

8. To the Navajo, the western mountains are yellow and bring the twilight. To the Hopi, yellow is north.

{photo from Domino magazine}

9. In India, yellow is the symbol of the merchant and farmer, although at one time it was considered the dress of the ascetic.

{Ingrid from Darling Clementine}

10. Pure, bright and sunny yellow is the easiest color to see. People who are blind to other colors can usually see yellow.

{photo from Oscar de la Renta, Spring Collection 2009}