Dark reason Walter White was always wearing green clothes in Breaking Bad

If you've had the sublime pleasure of watching Breaking Bad, then you might have noticed that the show seems to pay particular attention to the colours of each character's outfits.

While the TV show's logo and introduction is very green, so too are many of the outfits worn by lead character, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), and it's a detail plenty of fans have picked up on.

In an interview with GQ Magazine back in 2013, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan explained that a lot of work went into the colours associated with each character on the show.

He said: "At the beginning of every series we would have a meeting in which I would discuss with the production designer and the costume designer about the specific palettes we would use for any given character throughout the course of the year.

"We did this in microcosm in the pilot episode: for instance in the pilot, it was intentional that Walt start off very beige and khaki-ish, very milquetoast, and he would progress through that one hour of television to green and thus show his process of evolution as a character.

Nice green apron, Walt (AMC)

"We started to do that in macrocosm throughout particular series: we'd start Walt for example one year in red and take him to black. The one character we did not do that with was Marie, who stayed very consistent in her colour palette: she would always wear purple, to the extent of being quite monomaniacal about it.

"But there's quite a number of man hours spent discussing colour usage, and assigning colours to different characters and thinking in those terms."

In terms of basic colour theory, green has numerous positive connotations, like nature, however, it also has a few negative ones - namely envy and greed, according to ThreeRooms.

In the show, green is the symbol of these emotions as well as money - all things heavily associated with Walter White throughout the course of Breaking Bad, Mike Bedard from Looper says.

Bedard notes that he dons a green apron for his early meth cooking, his wardrobe then transitions more to green as Gilligan explained previously and when he declares victory over Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), he's wearing a bold green shirt to give some prominent examples.

Of course, Walt's wardrobe contains a number of other colours which also have their meanings and can tell you where he's at in an episode, and in Breaking Bad, each character is subject to this level of detail.

"I won." (AMC)

Many aspects of the meth-cooking scenes feature yellow outfits, including the yellow jumpsuits Walt and Jesse (Aaron Paul) don as they become more professional in their operation, according to Bedard, with Jesse himself having a lot of yellow in his colour scheme to represent his ties with the meth business, while Gus has lots of yellow outfits in his operation including the Los Pollos Hermanos uniforms.

Characters in blue tend to be demonstrating loyalty in the show, while those wearing orange tend to be posing a danger to Walt, Bedard further adds.

Gilligan said he felt 'so lucky' that Breaking Bad fans were paying such attention and that their observations 'humbled' him.

However, he added that sometimes he felt 'undeserving' because, on occasion, fans would put more thought into the details and their verdicts would 'speak to a level of attention to detail that we were never able to give those moments'.

The Breaking Bad creator said that some of these things fans picked up on were unintentional, and their inclusion was either 'subconscious' or 'dumb luck on our part'.