[The Saucepan Man]

Since life has two sides --good and bad, perhaps that duality also applies to the color green as well.

For me it's more that green represents both the vibrancy of nature when it is alive and the decay of natural things when they die. That, to my mind, forms the basis for the colour's duality.

Interesting, Saucepan Man that you would pick out blue as a color that carries naturally "good" connotations. The minute you said "blue", a variety of negative images and words flicked through my mind

Well, blue is my favourite colour, so I'd best stick up for it. Yes, there are negative connotations, but there are positive ones too. I find a clear blue sky, for example, most uplifting. And, in Tolkien's works, blue is the colour we associate with Tom Bombadil. But did you take the test that I linked to? The blue liquid and the blue stain certainly provoked less disgust in me than the green ones.

The color of our font here is green, as are the t-shirts, one of which I own. Now, this is not an evil place, one of the finest places I can think of, on or off the web.

Then again, the theme of the Downs is death so the green and black imagery seems quite fitting.

Another thought. Green is associated with jealousy and envy. Not sure how that fits into the discussion though ...