our exit signs are green in Australia and as someone who works as a tour guide in spooky buildings, let me tell you if those places were awash in an ominous red glow instead of a comforting green I’d be a lot less fearless on the job. red glowing exit signs. holy shit that’s horrible.
Oh come on. Are you saying that this:
Doesn’t fill you with ease. In an emergency, this doesn’t make you want to walk in an orderly fashion yonder?
I literally saw that monstrosity in a horror movie and my first thought was “oh come on they’re laying on the colour symbolism a bit thick aren’t they?”
but no. you all really live like that. that’s just normal and not threatening at all.
I believe the reasoning was that red light doesn’t affect our eyesight in the dark. Other colors make our eyes adjust to brighter conditions, meaning that if the emergency lighting doesn’t work/exist, and we go into a stairwell, we’re back to being blind AF. On the other hand, red light doesn’t do that, so our eyes are still adjusted to dark conditions.
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