Hello everybody

This article is about color and stress.

I will tell you how to use colors to reduce stress by understanding the effect of color combination of color harmony.

: What is color harmony? That classification

Color harmony is a rule based on the claim that a person named D · E Spencer says, "In the ordered arrangement of colors, when the interval between two colors is not ambiguous, a combination of pleasing colors is obtained".

Although I am talking about small difficulties, the essence is like the combination of color combination such as gradation and compost and the effect of area allocation.

There are various ways of thinking, but here we will explain this color harmony by dividing it into 4 methods.

[Single color harmony]

This is a combination of one chromatic color and one achromatic color.

For example, a color with red, blue or green color is called a chromatic color, but that color and a combination of achromatic colors such as black, gray, and white are not it?

An example of Japanese flag is easy to understand.

[Synonymous color harmony]

It is literally harmony of shades of similar colors.

I think that this is exactly like a gradation.

[Similar color harmony]

It is a combination of one chromatic color and one color containing that chromatic color.

For example beige and cream color.

Other than that, dark brown and orange, light blue and violet. Pink and lavender etc are similar color harmony.

[Complementary color harmony]

It is the color of the opposite relation to complementary color.

Combinations of colors such as red and green, white and black, yellow and purple are complementary colors.

When you look at the white paper after staring red, you can see pastel-like opal green on white paper. You can see the afterimage by seeing red, and the color that looks like it is called physiological complementary color.

By using these four color harmony well and coordinating your room, you can create a space to reduce stress.

: What is a stress-reducing room?

So what kind of room can actually reduce stress?

That is Japanese style room.

The color harmony of the Japanese-style room is the most coordinated to rest your heart and body.

This is also the result of the ratio of the coloring area of the beige color mainly used in the Japanese style room and the color of other colors.

About 70% of the viewing space of the Japanese-style room is a pillar, tatami and walls of Hinoki, mainly of beige and wasabi.

And the rest is composed of Tung chest of drawers and cedar ceiling etc. These colors have 50% reflectance of light, this reflectance is the same figure as human skin color.

So it is very familiar.

: Why is stress reduced when beige main?

I think that it is understood that the Japanese style room is very suitable for relieving stress.

And I think that I understood that the reason is that it uses a lot of beige color.

So why does this beige reduce human stress?

It has an indicator to measure the degree of tension of the muscle tissue against light and color called light · tonus, but according to it, the muscle response to beige color is 23, which is a very relaxing state .

Let's paste the Light Tonus numerical chart below.

The muscle tension is very low, that is, it is a very relaxing state.

Since stress is also continuing tension as it is, the relaxation effect of muscles by beige relaxes the body tension and can create a mental relaxed state.

If you want to reduce stress, you may want to coordinate the room with beige as the main color.

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