TIP 41 | Designers’ Secret: Spotting Color Combinations in Real Life

SPOT EXISTING COLOR PALETTES

To choose a color combination seems not that easy. However, here is a simple trick that the fashion industry commonly uses without using colour palette generators.

Look in the street, media, magazines cover, packaging, interior decoration, celebrities outfit, fashion editorials, flags, basketball logo, toys…

With a bit of conscious training and observation, you will notice multiple recurrent color combinations. The common color combination will soon appear obvious to you.

COLOUR RESEARCH – LIME AND YELLOW

Then, select color combo with your markers and draw anything you like to test it.

Very common color palettes:

• |  Grey + Pink 
• |  Brown + Turquoise 
• |  Orange + Red 
• |Green + Yellow

COLOUR RESEARCH – VIRDIAN GREEN AND YELLOW

COLOUR LOVERS

A great website for color inspiration: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes
The site picks up thousands of color palettes from Street fashion, magazines cover…
They have already done the analysis for you.

CANVA

https://www.canva.com/
You will play with thousands of color palettes to get inspired by – as well as knowing everything about colors!

Let me know your tricks on color combination!

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