I believe most people have a favorite color. I’m partial to a deep blue myself. I asked around. Guys seem to like blues and purples. Girls like red and pinks. Some musical acts hate certain colors and have actually asked me to never light them in a certain color, while others only allow themselves to be lit in certain colors. But one thing I found is that nobody really digs yellow. I personally use it carefully at times. Like when emulating sunrays on a rear cyc, or stabbing fans of light in a rock show. If I am lighting a punk rock band, I may use it because it looks really horrible. But it seems like if you illuminate 99 percent of the objects in the world in yellow, they will look nastier. Perhaps there is a theater character other than Sponge Bob or The Simpsons who would look good in this hue, but I have yet to see it.
—From “LD-at-Large” by Nook Schoenfeld, PLSN, Sept. 2013
