Cool off with Caribbean Colors
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Its getting hot, especially in the thirsty southeast right now, where we desperately need rain.
How to use color to cool off? Let’s visit the Caribbean...
Clear blue-green waters, jewel-toned orchids, pastel-hued colonial buildings, brightly painted cottages with candy-colored facades... the colors of Caribbean are a refuge from the tropical heat.
These fun colors (with mouth-watering names like mango orange, bright lemon drop, wild fushia, lime sorbet, Bird of Paradise reds and purples, Tahiti pink) add adventurous whimsy anywhere they are used.
Begin with fresh, oceanic blue-greens. Combine lavishly with luminous, clear colors, and you have a Caribbean palette. Don’t use all colors at full strength - that’s just too vivid and intense for the heat. You’ll want to tone down some of the palette members just a bit. For accents, include contrasting colors such as blues and coral tones that contain a hint of white, so they are not fully saturated. The color palettes in the left-hand column are all based on complementary contrasts.
Jolts of tropical color create a splash of energy that can breathe life into your palette. Tropical color schemes are simultaneously soothing, energetic, and teeming with life.
I’m now soliciting color questions so I can give you the color information you want in both the Margie’s Muse column and Color Celebration podcast. Email me with any color question you have.
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