I have a love-hate relationship with pink. A soft yet striking suits-everyone hue; yet walk down the ‘girl’ aisle in any toy store and it’s enough to put you off pink for life.
Here’s a collection of pink.
Looking for more colour inspiration? Here’s our post on how to choose the perfect colour for your brand. Here’s some ways to work with copper too.
Melbourne is not a city that sticks strictly to its seasons. It likes to keep us guessing.
It has turned us into a people obsessed with the accuracy of weather forecasts. Fifty-percent of people I know have the weather radar app on their phone and yet are not outdoorsy types. We Melburnians compare notes on the art of layering over a beer. We share umbrellas at traffic lights with sodden souls. We frequently test our city by planning outdoor events without back-up plans; but we will brave any weather providing there is coffee or wine nearby.
Here are some colour palettes from the last few months inspired by the seasons.
Winter clouds, storm coming, blackest night, red velvet armchair, Baileys on ice
Velvet grape, mulled wine, come-get-me pink, dusty rose, grey clearing, electric teal, neon lime
Clouds ahead, Wash away grey, summer girls, peachy glow, copper ground, emerald eyes, tropical foliage
Pearl blush, French blue, off-teal, pale bronze, spotlight, shiver of emerald, mossy grey, hello mustard.
Looking for more colour inspiration? Here’s our post on how to choose the perfect colour for your brand. Here’s some styling with yellow too.
With some sunshine today I’m dreaming of Spring. Here’s some pastel-inspired palettes for our Friday colour.
Minty blue, foggy lake, dusty pink, milk chocolate ganache, purple dusk.
Kitten grey, steely blue, copper, rose pink, buttermilk.
Deep turquoise, lavender, cold grey, mushroom, sage.
Faded silk, light copper, gold, spun straw, grey blue.
Minty grey, gold wash, forest green, black, iced pink.
Looking for more colour inspiration? Here’s our post on how to choose the perfect colour for your brand. Here’s some styling with yellow too.
I’m seeing red today. Here’s ten colour palettes using fire-engine red as your base.
Using red? Check out our post on fifty shades of red.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Interior trends have been all over copper this last year; exposed copper pipes, dipped copper trinkets, copper paint, copper prints. There is a lovely warmth to copper, and it makes a great base or highlight for a contemporary palette.
Here are some complementary colours for copper.
Want some more colour combos? See 7 complementary pairs for teal here; or more copper here
Teal is a deceptively flexible colour. Yes, it’s a fence-sitter. It can’t decide whether it’s blue or green – but somehow this works to its advantage when pairing it with others. Whatever you pair it with though, there’s no denying it a part of the spotlight. Teal is a colour to be looked at and envied, as Tiffany’s shows us so well.
So here’s some pairs for teal. Colours that hold their own next to some strong competition.
I love this combo. It’s a bit retro. I’ve seen these colours used in lots of kids products, party decorations and clothing – it’s a great gender-neutral palette that’s fun and bright.
Safer, but very pleasing. It makes a flighty teal more serious, more appropriate for a corporate scene. Navy goes with just about anything, but it is a little bit more lovely with teal by its side.
Brown and teal are pretty classic – and there are many shades of brown that work with teal. I like the contrast of warm/cool and the brown edging towards khaki.
In my eyes, for this combination to work well it’s best to let one colour dominate over the other. It could go either way, but I prefer teal staying the hero with accents of green.
Neutrals by definition should go with just about everything. I find teal and white together (though also a classic combination) are hard to pull off well – I prefer using an off-white, bone, pale mushroom or sand, it gives your palette more depth.
Using green with teal pushes it over the blue fence, which is a relief for the indecisive among us. Yellow-greens generally work well with teal, but beware the execution. The wrong shade (or the wrong percentages) can look clashing.
These two were born to be together. Look at them. They’ll have beautiful children.
Like some more teal? Here’s another teal palette, and another one here.
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