So our local children's hospital recently redecorated, but I'm not too sure they really thought things out
[image of a hospital hallway, with a flow-y strip of red paint on the floor]

[user gildatheplant]

Literally any other colour would've been a better choice guys.

[user mintymaiden]

[image of a diagram showing the positive and negative meanings of the color red. Positive meanings: willpower, warmth, energy, power, enthusiasm, leadership, love, strength, determination, passion. Negative meanings: danger, alert, war, lust, anger, stress, violence.]

I'd like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

[user ichigo-hiyoko]

im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me

red can mean whatever the heck you want it to meanm that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂

[user youthful-pills]

Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but if you want, here's a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out "The Designer's Dictionary of Color" by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something

Xoxo

-Designer

[link titled What is Color Theory?]

[user diasporanpapi]

I think y'all are missing the point here.

[user forlovefromfear]

You can theorize to Nebraska and back but that doesn't change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging a corpse around

[user jhenne-bean]

I like that the presumption here is that "No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth" rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to "this is a hospital and that looks like blood"

like, color theory doesn't exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and splotches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway's floor, an infographic won't override the viewers' instinct.

[user eternal-dannation]

this post is the perfect summation of tumblr's reading comprehension and critical thought abilities

[user cazador-red]

[image of Kirby pointing to a sign that says "Color theory don't Mean shit when You is Leaving Blood trails"]

[user wildhaunt]

Homicide detectives: why are you dragging that bleeding corpse around?

Me, an intellectual: well you see it's basic color theory...