Obsessive-Compulsive disorder? Why chat app icons are mostly green

These three rows are all illustrations of newsletters and chat applications. Do not know whether you have thought, why almost the world's communications application developers, have invariably chosen the green as the icon of the color? In order to answer this question, we once again asked the "no bad questions, only good answers," The question and answer website "Know", selected a few "know" on the more worthy of reference, and in order to facilitate understanding, do a simple compilation. These answers are not necessarily right or wrong, but people try to answer questions based on their feelings of use or imagination, and sometimes cite references to illustrate their views. Before you read the answer, you might as well try to think about what factors affect the appearance of the communication application color? Answer one: Green has the meaning of "unimpeded". I try to find out why, but I only see the meaning of "green symbolizes life, circulation, liveliness, nature". Although there is no direct correlation with "unblocked", the general direction and feeling are similar. I guess this is also a series of feelings from the "green", and based on the use of green, continuous development and expansion of the results. For example, the "green light" of the traffic lights means "unimpeded", "Allow forward" meaning. On the other hand, back to the phone itself, we can find that since the mobile phone, "Red key" and "green Button" on behalf of the "Hang Up" and "connected." The inspiration may come from traffic lights, and may also be related to the tradition of communication, which has been used all along. Later on the mobile phone use red, green two keys, the iphone with green as a call and message color, as well as the Android system dial-up, call interface, also is the case. One article, "Why Facebook is blue: color in marketing," refers to the use of color in business marketing, which collates a number of famous trademarks and brands: the use of each of the main colors in the chart, and the meaning of the representative, made a clearer division. Green represents peace, ease, and closer to the sense of communication software. Skype's blue rep is trusted, reliable, and so on. Conversely, if you use the red that represents "excitement", or the yellow that represents "optimism", it always feels like a disagreement. And the article also mentions that green and blue are consumers ' favorite colors because they look comfortable and easy to accept. If you do a specific analysis of color, you can find that each color has a different role: green: and health-related, the eyes are more comfortable color, used to relax. Blue: A sense of trustworthiness and security that can often be seen in banking and business affairs. Red: Represents energy, makes people's heart beat faster and the feeling of urgency, usually can be seen in the clearance auction. Yellow: Optimistic, young, usually used to attract the eyes of people who like to see the window. Purple: A soothing, stable role, commonly used in beauty or anti-aging products. Black: It looks strong and shiny, and is often used to sell luxury goods. Pink: Romantic and feminine, often used to sell supplies for women and young girls。 Orange: Be aggressive and get everyone to act: to order, to buy, or to sell. This article also contrasts the green and the red version of the page, the contrast is very big. Which one would make you want to "get started now"? However, in summary, the company chooses the brand and the product color, does not necessarily follow this law. There are a lot of communication software that is not green, and Skype is an obvious example. So, the reason why Green becomes the first choice of the communication application diagram, should be: (i) is the continuation of tradition and habit, (b) is the green image conforms to the communication application wants to give a person's feeling. Answer two: Green looks very comfortable, no red so publicity, but can attract people's attention. Chatting takes a long time to read, and the green is very soft. The red is supposed to be the most bright, but the red on the mobile phone interface will be uncomfortable, dazzling, and green is relatively mild, clean color. The blue interface is simple and inconspicuous, but it also attracts attention. Answer three: At least can be traced back to ICQ small green flowers, and MSN Small green people. Answer four: In order to be found in many apps as soon as possible! Mainly because the message icon on the iphone, you see the green, you can find the message! WeChat, line, etc. are communication products, the essence is the same. In order to facilitate the search, improve the identification, so the use of green! Green color bright, bright, and not abrupt.