Colour palettes 1
Choosing colour combinations for craft, such as quilting, can be a challenge. You can find yourself slipping into palettes that are influenced by factors such as what colours suit you to wear, which can confine your choices unnecessarily (eg. mustard: hard to wear, wonderful in quilts).
Bog standard paint chip displays with graduated colours can be a source of chips to mix and consider, but also look for examples where the paint company has done the work, such as the display below which I saw in a hardware store recently. Rather nice colour combinations, I thought.
Here’s an online tool that generates paint palettes and which you could also play with for crafting purposes. There are also a bunch of palettes to inspire you here.
July 7th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
a favorite of mine is adobe kuler - the colors are big, there’s a million combinations and you can tweak them.
July 7th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
that online tool is fun- and accurate! I think this will finally help me decide on colors for my babette blanket!
July 7th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
I love any little gadgets that will make my creations look ‘their best’. Thanks for posting the info.
Joni
July 9th, 2007 at 3:32 am
I really have trouble identifying the underlying tones (or is it hues?) of different colors, especially in paint chips. For example, if I want to put a green on the wall and an off-white on the trim and throw in a yellow somewhere, how do I tell if I got a white with gray or blue or red or yellow undertones? And do I want yellow undertones if I am adding yellow to the scheme? Or should all three colors have a red undertone?
Another example is the Ralph Lauren paint. The chips are gorgeous, but which off-white goes with which other off-white? Like does Barn-something-or-other goes with Swallowtail-something else, in a more carefully planned way than the fact that the chips look good together?