Color Theory

The main colors Link wears throughout OoT are green, white, and brown. It is interesting to note that these colors contain meaning and can even be seen as symbolic. Information regarding colors was found here.

Green is peaceful, the color of a spring meadow. Bright green can be uplifting and dark green evokes the mental image of a grove or forest. Green is the color of freshness and renewal, and has been in Western culture since the earliest of times. Reappearing in springtime, after the dull, seemingly colorless winter, it became a symbol of fertility and growth, of abundance and external life. The color green represents harmony, growth, abundance, vitality, healing, and nature and radiates a feeling of fullness. Green has come to mean youth, growing, healing, success, good luck, and beauty. It is said that green is the most restful color for the human eye. Green has great healing power. It can soothe pain. People who work in green environments have fewer stomachaches. Suicides dropped 34% when London's Blackfriar Bridge was painted green. Green is associated with the direction of North.

White symbolizes truth, purity, peace, protection, happiness, and the masculine divine. White can sometimes have a negative meaning as well. It can symbolize the pallor of death. The color white projects feelings of calmness, relaxation and an inner peace with one's surroundings and inner soul.

Brown is the color of the earth, evoking wistfulness or melancholy. Light brown confers genuineness. Dark brown is reminiscent of fine wood and leather. Brown symbolizes animal majick, home, friendship, grounding, herb majick and Earth and the direction of North.