Interculturality and relationships between individual cultures is a subject that doesn't have any boundaries and cotains countless elements that can be compared, analised and researched. In so doing, maybe the most important thing is exactly communication between different cultures because it is inevitable in todays informatical, media exposed, boundless and looking in terms of communication smaller and smaller world. Accordingly, all elements of communication should be well-known to us when we are coming into contact with other cultures. Colour is one of the elements of nonverbal communication which often doesn't get enough noted place when we talk about communication in general and when we observe what effects it has on succesfull and quality communication. Defining colour as an important element of communication, but also as everywhere present symbol which communicates countless and different messages is a basis of this paper. Defining colour, knowing its history, development, the way human beings see it and systematize it is an important part of learning about features which colours have in communication. This paper explains colour symbolism, most important cultural differencies when it comes to colours, relationship between popular cultures and colour, colour in the context of different world languages, ways we use it privately and in business communication and at last, power of persuation colours have and their psychological influence on people. The research conducted as a part of this paper wanted to prove importance of colour as nonverbal element in communication between members of different cultures in areas such as traditional values, private life, general communication and business relationships but also the emergence of misunderstanding or conflict.