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Colors Relationships

2006.02.15

I know I have a few very talented designers in my readership, so I have a question for you — both the talented designers and the others ;) .

Lets take 3 colors and call them respectively A, B and C.
Given A plays nice with B and A plays nice with C, can we assume B plays nice with C?

I’ve recently realized the above is true for a few real-life situations, but I’d like to know what others think.
Do you think it’d be too easy to generalize?

This post was written 2 years, 6 months ago on February 15th, 2006 evening time.

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Sally
2 years, 6 months ago

When I am feeling color uninspired, I always go to colourlovers.com. You can go look at all the palettes and see which colors do play well together!

Tristan
2 years, 6 months ago

I actually opened up photoshop and played around a little — it seems like I can make counterexamples to your “theorem”, so I don’t think I can say it’s true in general.

With colors, I find it’s always hard to generalize, especially in relationships of 3 or more. I always use my eyes and best judgement and screw the rules. :)

And I like the look of colourlovers.com — possibly a place to go for good inspiration.

Michele
2 years, 6 months ago

First of all, let me tell you I love Colour Lovers! :)

@ Tristan: I like to think of it as an axiom more than as a theorem… ;)

I know it can be easily confuted, also because it could lead to a nonsense: starting with three colours you’ll easily end up verifying any colour plays well with each and every colour.

The above nonsense, at the same time, is something that makes sense because there’s no objective way to tell if a colour doesn’t play well with another colour.

The point is colours are between the most subjective things on Earth, so there’s no quick and easy way to rationalize them, mine was just a quick attempt to put in formulae something I’ve found out to be true in most cases — as long as you keep it closed to a few colours.
…and it’s also — probably — a counter-effect of studying Engineering… :P

And BTW, thanks for stopping by! :)

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