Excerpt from Selling With Color This is a book about color and people. It has been written to be of practical benefit to modern business, to assure the effective development of consumer products, merchandising, advertising, packages, displays. Most books on color will be found long on theory and short on practice. This, perhaps, is because color is emotional in its appeal and tends to inspire a personal and subjective viewpoint. Yet while the so-called artistic aspects of color may be elusive, the facts of mass human reaction are otherwise. For color in industry today may be "engineered" with remarkable certainty, once the methods are known and applied with intelligence and care. It is evident that when you pick the right colors you sell a lot of merchandise or influence a lot of people; when you pick the wrong colors you pile up unsold inventories and see the public turn its back. To management this means that color problems must be rightly analyzed and estimated, that customers and markets must be known.

To those charged with the details of styling, the creative "hunch" must be supported by a real understanding of human wants and desires. It is the intent of this book to present facts rather than opinions and to set forth principles that have the support of extensive research and sales record. To accomplish this it has been necessary to gather all possible data from the scientific investigator and to study the sales experience of numerous industries. With such evidence at hand the more temperamental aspects of color may be thrown into clearer light and a better and surer control realized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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