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Blue logos – we get you!

written by Daniel Angel for the Web Design section

19 Nov 2009

A man wearing shades. He's making a gesture of disgust which makes the picture very funny. His shades reflect red, green and blue light.

Via Digg, I recently found a magazine scan from Wired Magazine that arranged corporate logos (I’m guessing from Fortune 500 companies) by their dominant colours. Unsurprisingly, a visible majority of those logos are blue. I’ve been wondering why people seem to like blue so much. Think about it: most operating systems are dominantly blue by default (bad ubuntu!). Heck, even denim jeans — western society’s greatest achievement — are predominantly blue!

Now I think I know why we tend to like blue so much: it’s because we’re really bad at it. Allow me to explain… Read on!

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