An ode to yellow and pink. And why it is a joyful, positive colour… | by Ruxandra Duru | Bootcamp | Medium

A couple of years ago, hoping to understand how colour works, I started building a personal two-colour combination library using coloured paper. Oftentimes, many of these pairs were lying around on my desk overnight. As I passed by the next day, I noticed how combinations of yellow and pink always made me smile — even in grumpy morning situations. I wondered: how could a simple two-colour palette positively alter my mood? If I took each hue separately, on one hand I saw yellows at full intensity with, at most, a touch of white. Yellow, the lightest colour of the rainbow, is usually sunny, outgoing and annoyingly optimistic, and the reason behind unreasonably large bowls of lemons on Pinterest kitchen counters. It is not all sunshine and butterflies however: vibrant yellow is also worn by the venomous viper and is the preferred background colour of warning signs. Personally, I appreciated bright yellow in small doses but it had never made it to my all-star favourites, possibly because I

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