we all kind of take for granted that hazardous spaces and materials are marked in bright red or yellow but someone had to have that idea for the first time and it was a guy called faber birren who worked as a color consultant for dupont and whose ideas were quickly picked up by the US army. he also thought that industrial workplaces should be painted in soothing pale colors to reduce eyestrain and make the hazard markers pop even more
so if you've ever been to a mid-century military base, control room, submarine, etc, and noticed that there was a lot of this one exact shade of seafoam green... it is the influence of this man












