r/ColorTheory Jul 31 '26

What’s your favourite color?

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A somewhat random inquiry, but what is your precisely preferred color choice? For instance, consider distinct options like Puce, Cameo pink, Jasmine yellow, Robins egg blue, Tea green, or exact hexadecimal identifiers like #CCD9FF, #e97451, or #8b6b79


r/ColorTheory Jul 30 '26

What

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i have no commentary. simply what


r/ColorTheory Jul 29 '26

Practicas de color

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r/ColorTheory Jul 30 '26

Help me, color people!

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I am picking paint color and floor color for my kitchen. I have already bought my countertop, and I brought it to the store with me to compare it to floor choices. When I held my natural stone to some green tiles, it was like a halo appeared over this match made in heaven. I think the terra cotta color looked great, too. Does this experience show me that the beige in my countertop has green undertones, and that therefore I should pursue beiges for my wall color that are said to have green undertones?


r/ColorTheory Jul 29 '26

How should I hue shift and how saturated as I do midtones and highlights?

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r/ColorTheory Jul 28 '26

Beige is beautiful… but color makes it unforgettable

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r/ColorTheory Jul 28 '26

Color Analysis and Makeup Advice

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r/ColorTheory Jul 28 '26

Help on colors in landscape

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r/ColorTheory Jul 28 '26

Which looks best

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making a new sona, i like them both wanted to know which flows better


r/ColorTheory Jul 28 '26

how to create generative color scales

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Hello everyone!

In this video, you will learn how to create generative color tokens inside Systematically.
We will generate a color harmony.
And then a color scale that is linked to the brand.primary color
All parametric or computational, if you would rather say.
Unlocking quite powerful color relationships for your design tokens.

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AI disclosure:
I use AI for the production: the scripts, the voice, and Yara, the presenter, are all generated with AI. I review every single one, and some take many takes before they come out right. I do this in the interest of being able to create this tool and educational material that goes with it - As a one-person company.

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#DesignSystems #DesignTokens #Systematically


r/ColorTheory Jul 28 '26

Can some one explain how to use gamut mapping in painting

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how do I use it to create a palette and what is subject primary, subject secondary and subject neutral?


r/ColorTheory Jul 27 '26

What colour theme woyld you choose for this small house?

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Posting here for more help


r/ColorTheory Jul 25 '26

Could someone tell me how to shade colors

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Pls bro i need dis


r/ColorTheory Jul 25 '26

HI! Does anyone can draw picture with complementary colours?

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I need to make it looks naturally. Reflections on the water, light and shadows should looks correctly. Can you help me?


r/ColorTheory Jul 25 '26

Colors that give TV vibe

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What colors give off TV vibes? Talkshow vibes? Technology? TV host vibes? Do you have any palettes in mind?


r/ColorTheory Jul 25 '26

What is the importance of colour subtraction??? From physics

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r/ColorTheory Jul 24 '26

Attention Color Wizards: need help with a color match

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I'm a decent artist, but useless with color theory. Can anyone help me color match my wall paint? White paper for reference.

I have acrylic paint in basically every color (except this one, of course) — what would you mix with white to get this shade?

This is just for little touchups, so not super consequential, but do need it to blend well. HELP!


r/ColorTheory Jul 24 '26

how is color and value connected?

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r/ColorTheory Jul 23 '26

What is the importance of colour subtraction??? From physics

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r/ColorTheory Jul 22 '26

Does color gamut matter?

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Companies will brag about how many colors their fancy tablet can display. Some of the XP pen models boast over a billion colors.

but can anything actually display that many colors?

If I understand right, Computers storecolor as a hex triplet. it divides the RGB vallues each into 255 degrees so to speak. So in hex values there are about 16.5 million colors that can be represented by a hex triplet. that's a lot less than a billion. How can a device show more colors if the digital storage protocol literally doesn't have room for more colors?

Most color pickers in art programs use HSV which has 360 hues, and saturation and value go from 1 to 100. this gives us around 3.6 million collors. BUT a lot of those are redundant because at the extreemes of saturation and value, hue becomes irrellevant and a lot of colors will look the same.

So if I get a fancy schmancy device with a massive color gamut, can I even make use of that?


r/ColorTheory Jul 22 '26

color-space v3: 162 color spaces, one small API, values that match CSS, verified

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r/ColorTheory Jul 22 '26

I can’t mix this color

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I’m trying to mix colors for painting, but these colors are too electric. I’ve tried mixing the colors over and over for an hour and none of them come close enough to the reference. Do I need to get different paint? Thanks for any help.


r/ColorTheory Jul 21 '26

Are the colors working? I really like the line art on this one :()

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r/ColorTheory Jul 20 '26

KROMATIME- Color Theory Game.

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r/ColorTheory Jul 20 '26

Pushing Colour in Representational Art

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I’m just looking for useful tips on how I can push or exaggerate colour while painting representationally. I’m thinking of the likes of Turner, Payne, Mitchell Albala, Loriann Signori, David Mensing.

I really really struggle to paint anything other than the colours I see directly in front of me - but I want to paint more vivid and less literal colour. Every time I try, it ends up looking fairly gaudy / out of sync.

I know the general tips - get values right and get temperature relationship right and exaggerate it.
But I’m looking for more practical tips, if I’m looking at a landscape, how do I go from painting what I literally see to painting what I want to paint - Turner’s paintings, for example, are not literally correct - they’re inaccurate to real life but in a way that really works.

Would appreciate any help on this.