"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Color preferences shift over time and are attributed to personal meanings. Blue is a top choice for ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. For the past few weeks, we’ve been tackling queries on the theme of “blue.” What ...

Blue is the color of the ocean and the sky, and considering blue's color symbolism, it makes sense why this color is associated with calmness. In fact, one survey found that blue is a favorite color ...

The color blue has many associations—metaphorically “feeling blue” as depressed, musically singing “the blues,” politically progressive “blue states,” or optimistic “blue sky” goals. But what effect ...

Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, begins with a memory of blue: A missing dropped-ceiling tile in her grandmother’s bedroom reveals a glimpse of the ...

You probably like blue, and you’re not alone. Across the globe, a majority of people tend to select blue as their favorite color, polls and studies show (apologies to dark yellowish-brown, a ...