Colors as visual communicators

People love stories. This must have originated from the time when getting tucked up in bed means a story afterwards. Fairy tales are colorful stories with colorful endings. Then came those fiction books with twists and turns and sometimes not so colorful endings. People early on are thought to see experience and feel colors not just in its visual state but the colors that come from words. Words can be made colorful. If we put it into another prospective, visual and colors can also tell stories, like words. Visual and colors are put early on in coloring books to make kids understand things in the most simple way. By arranging chronologically, a story can be created, depending on the understanding of the one reading the colors. This is also true in prints and designs. People tend to get tired of reading long and flowery words that only end up meaning the same things. Some can be so predictable that after reading the first paragraph, the ending can be told. Others may get too jumbled up in the words that it will took awhile understanding, if patience does not run out first. Using visuals, stories become more compelling because people can produce their own story, go into different directions with just the colors. What makes them able to do this are the absence of words that sometimes spoon-fed them into what they are supposed to be reading. The story is laid out in front of them. All they had to do is read. Imagination need not be used. This is in contrast to colors that story tell. Expounding the imagination is just one of the things these visuals can do. With just drawings, a story can enfold before the reader