The book not only talks about color combinations but also the history and personalities of colors. Although this book is for interior and how to color your homes being a textile designer i found it insightful and a guide for my work. Keep up the good work.

This is an excellent book for beginners, designer-wanna-bes as well as professionals who deal with color and color-combinations for a living. Interior designers will find it helpful in that it is a great resource to show a client who can't verbalize what colors/moods they want you to create for them. I highly recommend this book!

As a usability professional, I had bought it for the psychophysical effects of color on humans. This was my mistake, it does not advertise itself for this but was recommended to me for this purpose by another individual. It does have some of this, but inconsistantly. As I am interested in color both jobwise and for decorating, I read it regardless.

COLORS WERE OFF IN CHIPS FOR PREFERENCE CHECK: The major thing I find fault with, was the color chips it uses in its test for personal preference, were poor representatives of the colors it was meant to represent. Ironically, there is a disclaimer on the book that this may not be a true representation, but I would think a book about color preferences should go out of its way to be sure this is done well. All the color chips appeared to be washed out. As I do not like pastels, I feel this "colored" my impressions significantly. Also I feel some were quite a bit off either too much yellow or green etc.

INDIVIDUAL COLOR SUBTOPICS INCONSISTENT: The other major complaint I has was that under the specific color topics (there were 11), the subtopics were inconsistent. If I wanted to compare the physiological responses of Red to that of Brown for instance, I would be out of luck as the subtopics from one color to another were not consistent. Some had one type of information and another had others. I also found the information provided on each color to be more of just a memory dump of information on each color and not necessarily entirely pertinent or stuff I would really want to know.

COLOR COMBINATION EXAMPLES NOT NEAR DISCUSSIONS: Another thing I found particularly frustrating is that examples of color combinations showing various moods were interspersed in the book, and not near the discussion. It made is hard to compare and you were always turning pages.

COLOR MOOD DISCUSSIONS SHOWED NAMES INSTEAD OF COLORS: Besides having the examples not near the color mood discussions, there were names of colors used, that weren't even repeated in the examples or elsewhere in the book. I did not check all, but the several I did check this was the case. If nothing else even the RGB equivalents would have helped. Maybe these were Pantone names (it didn't indicate this), but unless you have a chart this would not help.

PUTTING THE COLOR MOOD EXAMPLES INTERSPERSED IN THE BOOK WAS CONFUSING TO THE AREA IT WAS PLOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF: Even when reading, since you would read the first part on color moods before that of the individual colors, it was confusing when you ran into the color mood discussions while reading about a specific color that it was not pertinent to. On top of that in order to refer back to the color mood examples, you had to find their discussion area to find their page numbers instead of being able to refer just to a specific area to go back to. I used post it note tabs to keep track, but I shouldn't have to.

This book could've been so much more. It suffered poor execution in the colors and bad organization.

This book is my solution. It provides not only indept information about each color and what part of the house to use it, it provides information on the emotional use of color.

Now I must decide if colors in my rooms should be traditional, whimsical, rustic, etc.

I am adicted to this book. I wake up at night and turn on the light to look at certain colors again.

Wonderful book!

Offering a simple defined test to allow you to select the colors best suited for your presonal mood and preference, whether for your home or work environment.

However COLORS FOR YOUR EVERY MOOD is soooooo much more!

With detailed descriptions and discussions about how each color affects the way we feel as human beings. Also discussion on how color combinations are effectively used to persuade the buying public, combat aggressive behavior, influence our appetites and more.

A wonderful preceeding read to the NEW "Communicating with Color" just out in the market now (another must read)!

Colors for your every mood gives exactly what it promises...colors for YOUR every mood. The detailed description of each color is fascinating and enthralling putting your specific colors into an interesting unique perspective.

I have had the opportunity to see Leatrice Eiseman in action on several occasions. She is a fascinating, education expert. This book is a close representation of experiencing her wonderful insight in person. One of the foremost color experts in the world shares and divuldges her vast color expertise and education for everyone.

Easy to read, in short bits or to completely digest in one sitting...(I always find it hard to put down) you will find yourself returning to this fascinating color reference tool time and time again...as your colors for your every mood change and evolve.

Kudos to Ms. Eiseman for creating a book that transends other color methodology and "boring textbook references", colors for your every mood is ALIVE with Color and full of color secrets that will change the way you experience color in your business, professional or home environment.

Although this book is in and of itself an excellent resource, I don’t believe that it can be considered a complete resource without the reader also having a copy of the Pantone Textile Color Guide Paper Edition as its companion (and the author makes reference to that on page 173). As with any printed book, the colors of this book are not reproduced exactly as they were intended. However, the Pantone guide gives you a dead-on perfect rendition of the colors Ms. Eiseman cites in the book. This is important if you want to match up paint swatches or fabric colors to those in the book.