The impact of colors in your planning

The use of colors in your planning provides clarity. Unconsciously, colors also influence your brain, mood, emotions, and productivity. Curious about which colors you should best apply in your planning? Keep reading.

Carmen
Carmen
March 16, 2021
2 min
The impact of colors in your planning

RED

Red symbolizes danger, intensity, warning, and error, among other things. Red is one of the most attention-grabbing colors. By making an urgent label red, you are less likely to overlook it in your planning. Red is often associated with negativity. Something marked red in the planning should actually indicate a problem or issue.

Rood staat onder andere voor gevaar, intens, waarschuwing en fout. Rood is een van de meest opvallende kleuren. Door een label spoed rood te maken zie je deze minder snel over het hoofd in je planning. Rood wordt vaak geassocieerd met negatief. Iets wat rood is in de planning moet dus eigenlijk een probleem of knelpunten aantonen.

BLUE

Blue symbolizes calmness, reliability, and safety, among other things. If you use the (quality) control status in your planning, make this status blue.

Blauw

ORANGE

Orange symbolizes action, enthusiasm, and enterprise. Use orange for statuses or labels where something needs to happen or has already started.

Status Bezig

GREEN

Green symbolizes relaxation and tranquility, but also confirmation and positivity. Make the completed or ready status green. This gives you an extra relaxed feeling when you have completed all your cards.

Status Gereed

LIGHT GREY

Light gray symbolizes the still unconscious and undefined. For example, make the open status light gray to influence your subconscious.

Status Open

PUPLE

Our favorite color! Purple symbolizes creativity and inspiration, among other things. vPlan stands for inspiration, which is why the purple color has a prominent place in our application, such as our purple icons.

Status Paars

Colors to avoid for productivity

Black - Black evokes little emotion and motivation. It has a depressive effect on employees' thought processes and is therefore detrimental to productivity.

Dark Gray - Dark gray is an unpleasant color for most people to look at. Additionally, dark gray inhibits creativity in all areas.

Carmen
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Carmen

Carmen Kelder is a marketer at vPlan and enjoys exploring productivity and smarter ways of planning. As a marketer, she understands better than anyone how planning and practice come together. What she learns, she applies in real-world situations and shares through clear, practical content that helps teams work more efficiently.

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