TIP 41 | Creating Beautiful Color Palettes: How Designers Do It Easily

Spot existing color palettes around you

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.

You can apply it to choose the marker colors combination for your sketches.

It just needs a bit of daily observation effort.

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. It will soon appear obvious to you.

Very common color palettes:

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

COLOUR RESEARCH A – LIME AND YELLOW

COLOUR RESEARCH B – 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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