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