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Blue 5
Blue 5
In the United States and Europe, blue is the colour that both men and women are most
likely to choose as their favourite, with at least one recent survey showing the same
across several other countries, including China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.[5][6] Past
surveys in the US and Europe have found that blue is the colour most commonly
associated with harmony, confidence, masculinity, knowledge, intelligence, calm,
distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and sadness.[7]
Linguistic research indicates that languages do not begin by having a word for the
colour blue.[11] Colour names often developed individually in natural languages, typically
beginning with black and white (or dark and light), and then adding red, and only much
later – usually as the last main category of colour accepted in a language – adding the
colour blue, probably when blue pigments could be manufactured reliably in the culture
using that language.[11]