HEARTSTOPPER SPOILERS So as a TV/Film graduate I spend most of my time consuming media in an annoying way. This means I overanalyze every single detail until my brain hurts and won't shut up about it. This post is going to be a comprehensive look into color theory and my thoughts while watching (and rewatching) Heartstopper. First, let's start with the setting and how the colors help set the tone. Truham Boys School. The school colors seem to be a blue (but color grading often makes it look teal/cyan) and yellow (and color grading also varies to make this more mustard/or desaturated or more saturated), as seen below. These also happen to be the colors that represent our two main characters: Charlie and Nick. We'll start with Charlie. His main color palette seems to be yellow. His room. His water bottle. His rugby bag. The sparks when he and Nick touch. The table HIS friends sit at. It's all yellow. If we wanna get film and artsy, which we are, this can represent a lot of different things. Positives to start: Hope. Optimism. Knowledge. Wisdom. Negatives: Cowardice. Deceit. Betrayal. Jealousy. Yellow reflects a lot of Charlie's mood in season one and is shown a lot in the scenes in which he is present. Below are some examples. Next is Nick. This section will be a bit longer because his palette changes in the last episode. His main color palette is blue, which is actually a lot to do with Truham in my opinion. He has a lot of societal pressure to follow what his friends from Truham do or say, so most of his palette reflects that. His rugby bag is blue. His sparks when he holds Charlie's hand in front of the Truham boys is blue. His room is blue. His jumper he gives Charlie is blue. The table his friends sit at is blue. The memory of Charlie's bullying is blue, due to the Truham pressure. Hell even his marker is blue. Positives of blue representation in film can be loyalty, cleanliness, clean, calm, confidence. Negatives can be depression, sadness, coldness, isolation. Blue can be an emotional color which is perfect to represent Nick's journey through Heartstopper. It pulls the audience through and rips at the heartstrings more when basked in blue light. But, the colors start to change as Nick and Charlie get together. The lighting choice used when they first kiss at Harry's party? Yellow, it's the hope for Nick. Nick's mug has an "N" in what color, as his mother tells him he is more like himself around Charlie? Yellow. The umbrella they kiss under in the rain? Blue and yellow. The details are there if you look. And the final episode, the beach. Nick is in yellow. He is hopeful for their future together. He's wearing Charlie's color because he's more like himself around Charlie, he's finally feeling proud and joyful and optimistic of what could be their future together. And, Charlie is wearing a muted blue under his outer shirt. Nick is wearing yellow when he tells his mother they're dating as well. Not to mention, Nick's mother is often wearing yellows throughout the series - possibly a subtle production/wardrobe hint to those who already didn't know that she would be supportive of her son. There are many other examples that I couldn't fit into this post. Some cute prop things like their notebooks on the table on Episode 5 when they poke each other's hands: Charlie's is yellow, Nick's is blue. But my final thing is something even stated in an interview Patrick and Alice had, where the production designs for the rooms were intentionally opposite for the boys. Nick's is put together and clean. Charlie's is a bit chaotic and cluttered. This beautiful shot mixed with that interview is what fully inspired this overanalyzed post. If you've gotten this far, it's time to just say the color meanings in film is fully up to Directors and Their production designer and art teams; and not to mention the audience. How a director may intend for something to read on camera can be taken in 1000 different ways and this isn't a certified truth in anyway. In fact, this is just an opinion and honestly, an overanalysis of color theory in a show I absolutely adore. Go watch Heartstopper again and come back to share your thoughts now that you see this from a new perspective because oh is it fun to notice these cute details.
FAQs
What does blue and yellow together mean? ›
Blue and yellow are such a powerful color combination that they have been used throughout history to connote royalty or power on everything from clothing to national flags. Yellow is the color of warmth and the sun and blue is the color of the sky and the devine.
What does blue and yellow mean in Heartstopper? ›Symbolizing Charlie is trying to take on who is and prove himself to nick. The umbrella in the rain kiss scene is blue and yellow. Symbolizing them coming together. As the series and their relarionship progresses we start to see Charlie and Nick in more green. Blue + yellow = green.
What is in between blue and yellow? ›Green is halfway between blue and yellow.
What does blue and yellow mean spiritually? ›Before we start, let's take a quick look at the meaning of each color. Blue: Trustworthiness, peace, calm, serenity, stability. Red: Love, energy, passion, danger, aggression. Yellow: Happiness, energy, optimism, fear.
What is the theory of yellow and blue? ›The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe presented his own theory in 1810, stating that the two primary colors were those in the greatest opposition to each other, yellow and blue, representing light and darkness.
What emotion does yellow and blue represent? ›Warm colors (red, orange, and yellow) are generally thought to evoke feelings of happiness, optimism, energy, and passion. They can also be associated with excitement, danger, and anger. Cool colors (blue, green, and purple) are often described as calm, but can also call to mind feelings of sadness or indifference.
What is the spectrum of blue and yellow? ›| colour* | wavelength (nm) | frequency (1014 Hz) |
|---|---|---|
| yellow | 580 | 5.16 |
| green | 550 | 5.45 |
| cyan | 500 | 5.99 |
| blue | 450 | 6.66 |
In the case of blue and yellow, the result would be green. As more pigments are combined, more light is absorbed, and the colour mixture progressively becomes darker. The CMY colour model (cyan, magenta, and yellow) aligns with the additive primary colours of red, green, and blue.
What is the color of purity? ›White represents purity or innocence. While a bride wearing white was often thought to convey the bride's virginity, blue was once a traditional color worn by brides to symbolize purity.
What is the color of healing? ›Green is the color of life, renewal, nature, and energy. The color green has healing power and is the most relaxing color for the human eye to view.
What color represents love? ›
Red. The colour most commonly associated with love, it makes sense to have this one up top.
What is the blue meaning in love? ›Blue meaning in love: In love and relationships, the color blue represents fidelity and loyalty, hence the reason that, in America, it is traditional for a bride to wear "something blue" on her wedding day. 10. Blue meaning in life: Blue often represents peace and tranquility in one's life.
What does blue and yellow flag mean? ›The Ukrainian flag consists of two horizontal bands of equal width, with blue on the top and yellow on the bottom. The combination is commonly decoded as the sky above and the endless fields of wheat beneath it.
What does the blue and yellow emoji mean? ›A yellow face screaming in fear, depicted by wide, white eyes, a long, open mouth, hands pressed on cheeks, and a pale blue forehead, as if it has lost its color. Its expression evokes Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
How do you wear blue and yellow together? ›STYLE TIP:
Make a statement with yellow pants and incorporate blue in a denim shoe. To maintain a relatively undertone look, stick with a neutral knit or blouse and accessorize with a brooch, pin, or scarf.
The Meaning of the Color Yellow
The psychology of the color yellow tells us that the color has traditionally been a symbol of joyfulness, happiness, and energy and is associated with summer months. While on the other hand, it also symbolized caution and cowardice and irritates people in certain shades.