Or….
Imagine a world without colour. Well for one, I would probably be unemployed! Along with painters and decorators, artists and snooker ball manufacturers! Although, remember snooker on a black and white TV? When the sports, now legendary, commentator Ted Lowe uttered “And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green”. Now, in this world of High Definition, you see a whole kaleidoscope of colour as the black, pink, blue, green, yellow and red break around the green felt.
Life without shiny coloured
balls
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| Where would we be without coloured balls? |
Imagine a world without colour. Well for one, I would probably be unemployed! Along with painters and decorators, artists and snooker ball manufacturers! Although, remember snooker on a black and white TV? When the sports, now legendary, commentator Ted Lowe uttered “And for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green”. Now, in this world of High Definition, you see a whole kaleidoscope of colour as the black, pink, blue, green, yellow and red break around the green felt.
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| Football would be almost impossible to play if football strips were neutral colours. |
A football match (soccer
to non-brits) would be almost impossible to play if football strips were
neutral colours. We wouldn’t know which team each player was playing for and
the players wouldn’t know who to pass the ball to (although watching our local
team I sometimes think this is the case every week!) The top level players
would certainly earn their wages!
Traffic lights would be
none existent, with no red to tell us when to stop or green to tell us when to
go road users would have to decide amongst themselves when it is safe to go. Forcing
us to make eye contact whilst attempting telepathy to figure which direction
the other drivers are going to travel. This,
I fear, would produce a whole new set of hand signals!
Without colour our
clothing would all be the same neutral colour, with no individuality, neutral
uniforms wouldn’t display authority and fashion designers would be out of
business. (It would make dress shopping with my better half a whole lot easier
though!)
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| Advertising in black and white didn’t have the same impact as today’s High Definition colour adverts |
Before the introduction
of colour TV’s in the fifties and sixties, advertising in black and white didn’t
have the same impact as today’s High Definition colour adverts. From colourful commercials
for paint, to adverts for cars, none would have the same impact in monochrome.
Even our own advert, shown below, (ok, a cheap plug!) would be rather pointless
without colour and advertising neutral coloured printer ink or toner cartridges
would be rather pointless!
Colour is all around us. Everything
from the clothes we wear, to the photos we take revolves around colour. Without
colour the world would be a much less beautiful place.
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