This study was designed to explore the effects of color and light on indoor wayfinding and the subjective
judgments of those perceiving the environment. Furthermore, how problems experienced in buildings
with complex floor plans and successive spaces are addressed using variables such as color, brightness,
and correlated color temperature through a desktop virtual reality environment. The experiment was
conducted with the participation of 102 university students who experienced the indoor environments
with various color and light variables, and evaluated these environments using concrete concepts like
clear/blurry, attractive/unattractive, navigable/unnavigable and inviting/repellent. The scores for attractiveness
and remembrance of warm colors were found to be higher than those for other colors, and the
median scores for the positive perception of correlated color temperature were found to be higher than
those concerning high and low level temperatures. However, it was confirmed that the use of warm and
cool colors in indoor environments with low light levels were not taken into consideration by users of
a space and were perceived negatively. Moreover, it was determined that compared to the males, females
preferred high brightness levels