Arielle Eckstut, co-author of Secret Language of Color, attributes the palette's rise to two things: holly and Coca-Cola. "Holly has played a huge part in this red and green association," Eckstut ...

So around the holiday time, because holly is the one bright thing in ... And this is when we really start to see the colors of red and green defined as the colors of Christmas.

No matter how we decorate our homes, when we think of Christmas, we automatically associate it with the colors of red and green. One of the oldest associations with red and green is holly ...

“Some say the holly is the Christ child and the ... Many credit modern commercialism for solidifying red and green as the classic Christmas color palette. “Part of the magic of red and green ...

author of The Secret Language of Color. “There is no definitive history, per se,” she tells TIME. Eckstut’s research found that holly, with its green leaves and red berries, long played a ...