A lot of people can answer that question immediately and enthusiastically. I don't think that I am one of those people. I am not sure exactly how one says...this color right here is my absolute favourite. What goes into that? Maybe it's just a preferred color that they like to wear....or maybe be surrounded by in a room but it seems odd to me. I can understand a preference to warmer color or maybe light colours, but a specific one?
I would think if that favourite color got out to all the people that knew the person then every gift they received from then on would be drenched or accented in that particular color. Wouldn't that be the equivalent to vanilla?
Some people are just fanatics. When I say that I mean that they are the people that follow a sports team and say "We lost yesterday" or "We won yesterday" without ever being close to being a player or a coach for said team. These people are decked out in the teams colours from head to toe including painting their faces. Basements have more logo's and paraphernalia than the team locker room. I can see how these people have a favourite color.
For others it's just a particular one. I know that my grandmother favoured the color green. I have no idea why, but I can tell you that she had one of the largest gardens that I have ever seen. Maybe it was just a color that represented that passion...or maybe she just felt that she looked really nice in green?
Then there is the argument about what is and what isn't a color. Some people prefer the Johnny Cash method of always throwing black on their backs. Apparently both black and white are not considered colours, but absence of color. I'm not sure about you but the last time that I checked black and white were both color options when purchasing a car. The dealer didn't ask, would you like your car with or without color?
Painting the rooms in your house is a process that will cause one to never talk about colours again. Every hue imaginable is available in every shade of color. Each of them have their own name that some person laid off from Hallmark must have created. Arctic Grey...Dusty Road...Opulent Vanilla. Go to another paint store and ask for one of those and they never heard of them.
If you look up classic icebreaker questions, one of them is normally What is you favourite color? Maybe this is a test to determine if there is anything in common with the person. I wonder if you followed up that question with Why is that your favourite color then how many people could answer it? I'm not sure, they might say, ..I have always had an affinity for bright orange.
I believe that the fashion industry has a lot to do with what colours are in "season". They kind of dictate what available choices there are at any given time. I suppose if someone found a color that was very flattering and garnered a lot of positive comments, then that would become a favourite color. You would get sick of that color because it's only in "season" for a short duration and then would become difficult to find until the guru's at Calvin Klein decide it's time that it makes its reappearance. I can only imagine that the same problem exists for the lipstick industry.
One thing is for certain. A world without color would be a dreary one. So go ahead and paint your world with your favourite. Buy that hat with the neon piping. The last thing we need is a world of snow blindness. Pick a favourite and shout it out from the roof tops...unless it's beige. Nobody likes beige. Beige is the Hooper Humperdinck of colours.