(Click here for some more information about creating Neutral Color Palettes). Check out these grey/neutral color schemes to see what I mean!įor example, a yellowish, 'murky'-looking version of gray can look quite depressing, especially if you paint more than one wall with it and combine it with brown hues in a room.īut a really neutral hue of gray (that is, a gray that has no color in it apart from 'clean' white and black) will tend to look clean and crisp in most color combinations. You can get the whole gamut from yellowish to orangey-brownish to purplish, bluish and greenish grays, and their psychological effects can be quite different, particularly when you use them over large areas.
On the other hand, the color gray often contains other colors. for more info about color psychology, please go to the general psychology of color article.
This page is about the effects of grey color.