A highly interesting and informative phase of colorology is the study of color combinations. To list these in detail would be superfluous, as by comparing the charts just given it is easy to analyze a person’s composite traits. Here, however, you are moving from the psychic phase into the physical field, where subtle forces are supplanted by personal preferences.

So far we have have been dealing primarily with the aura. This is something that can at times be sensed. It is possible to type a person by color impressions, and sometimes a golden glow may be disturbed by spots of red; or a purple cloud may be streaked with brown, like an approaching storm. Then analysis becomes intuitive, being centered on the more definitive color, but with special interpretations for the intruding hues.

A balanced or composite analysis is applied to the effect of color combinations on persons; that is, outward causes are used to study inward reactions. This goes with school colors, which rouse sentiment and enthusiasm; national emblems, which stimulate loyalty and patriotism; colors of nature, as a golden sunlight against a purple twilight, which awaken inspiration.

From the combinations a person favors strongly, you have a good index to individual temperament. Add up points for each color, allowing for conflicts, and you have it. In such analysis, white is often a conttrast. A person favoring “red-and white” is obviously responsive to red, but the white may show an appreciation of the finer side of the red vibration, such as fair play combined with virility.

There must be a reason for white, however, say as a trimming, or emphasis for the stronger color. Otherwise, the white influence may be weakening, particularly when a person, in naming it, deliberately rejects some other color. When three colors are named in combination, white, if one of them, is almost always the balancing element, and a very valuable facctor.

Gray is a good modifying color; in fact, it finds its best expression in combination, for there it is definitive, representing wise caution rather than doubt and uncertainty. Brown, too, shows its strong points with another color accompanying it, as brown is solid and unswayed, thereby lending consistency to its companion color.

An interesting commentary on the effect of colors in shaping the popular mind and the spirit of entire nations is found in comparative studies of World Wars I and II, where the national emblems of the contesting forces were concerned.

In World War I, France, Great Britain, and the United States, on the Allied side, all had flags with the colors red, white and blue. So did others of the Allies, notably Russia, until with defeat she declared a separate peace and switched to plain red. Various smaller nations joined the Allied cause and some of those had flags with colors red, white, and blue.

But not one of the Central Powers and their satellite nations had national colors of red, white, and blue!

With World War II, France, Great Britain, and the United States were again among the Allies. Among the nations drawn into the conflict on the Allied side were the Netherlands and Norway, both with colors of red, white and blue.

Again, not one of the opposing Axis Powers had red, and blue as colors; but that was not all. Of the nations that had been on the Allied side in World War I, but switched opposition in World War II, none had flags of red, white and blue.

Certainly, those colors must seemingly have a mutual and unchanging effect upon all who come within their constant and consistent influence!