[ SECRET POST #5802 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5802 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I heard (in an art class) that this was because the primary colors are vastly more popular and were monopolized by superhero design and heroes in general. By a very wide margin, the most chosen "favorite color" is blue. Red comes in second. Yellow tends to get tiresome when you overuse it, but as an accent, it makes other colors seem brighter. The idea was to try to emphasize purity and vibrancy with costume. And if they're going to be combined with something that isn't a color, a typical choice in the 80's - for heroes - was still white.

With the heroes getting first pick of everything, villains were still supposed to be easy to recognize, and visually different. Cue the secondary colors and mixed colors, with the supposed psychological implication of murkiness and being neither one thing nor the other: purple, green, and orange. They have two primary colors in them, but they're in-between. And, with those, of course, black.

As an aside, pink tends to change its connotations when you put it alongside black, grey, or purple, from an innocence thing to a sort of ... perverted innocence thing. Especially on guys. Sometimes color design was also about saying what they weren't outright *saying.*