Saturday, May 28, 2005

Color Schemes

I have decided on a few color scheme ideas. I looked at some teen girl magazines to get ideas. (yeah that was fun :-/).
I looked at Seventeen, People, among others. I also took a look at some websites like YM, Seventeen, Teen Mag, and Teen People.
Here is a list, of what seem like the best color schemes:
  1. Light Pastel (Triad) Blue with Yellow and Red
    (very similar to magazines)

  2. Pastel (Tetrad) Red with Green, Orange, and Blue

  3. Contrast Blue (Tetrad) with Orange, Green, and Magenta

  4. Contrast Magenta (Tetrad) with Green, Orange, and Blue
    (very similar to web sites)

First of the number of colors needs to be more than two, I'd say because they media seem to emphasis color quite a bit (hence Triads and Tetrads). Saturation and Chroma tend to also be high making Pastels or Contrasting Schemes an easy choice. From magazines the blue, magenta, yellow-orange combo is surprisingly consistent throughout, except for the occasional special color for a special section. The websites on the other hand tend to gravitate towards the magenta and orange for some reason but still have a high amount of colors and saturation.

Please post any comments if you have any, Thanks.
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