![]() It reminds us of juicy blood oranges, tomato sauces, fresh shellfish, chilled happy-hour cocktails, and spicy peppers roasted over open flames or at least the very active social events where these delicious things would be found. Red-orange is the most common favorite color of many chefs because it is vibrant, showy, and stimulates our appetite. I already mentioned my bias for red-orange, and it’s probably because this color looks tasty! And not only by my standards but many people’s. (Side note: most of the Shade Suggestions I included in the previous posts are tertiary colors! Anything other than the PURE unmixed version of a color was included for entertainment value and because I will find any excuse to collectively drool over purses with you all. So I want you to take an inventory of some of the following tertiary colors that you feel personally drawn to (or repulsed by) and compare them with existing colors in your wardrobe to see which pairings bring you and your outfits to life. ![]() van Gough’s idea about how certain combinations can reveal our own emotional touch-points. This is probably the best modern example that demonstrates Mr. It’s definitely a bizarre and rare occurrence but apparently this deep angst seems to fade a bit when the scary color is paired with other feel-good colors. Usually the phobia is for certain individual colors (in their true form and as mixed tertiary shades) such as Porphyrophobia for purple, Cynophobia for blue, Leakophobia for white, etc. I have met plenty of others who have an aversion to certain shades I have even heard of people that have Chromophobia – the fear of colors. Perhaps my unconscious bias was formed, well… unconsciously, and therefore I will never truly understand the power that the color orange and its derivatives have over me.īut I know I am not alone in this occurrence. There seems to be no real reason for this disparity in my perceptions but who knows. I find them garish and distracting and being surrounded by them feels off putting to me, but oddly enough, I somehow still love almost every shade of red-orange because it feels warm, inviting, and kinda sexy to me. Just to give you an idea of this, I have disliked the colors true orange and yellow-orange for as long as I can remember. We all know someone who may be disgusted by dingy yellowly pea green or bewitched by the serenity of vibrant turquoise, but the sheer magnitude of the tertiary color range is sometimes enough to even put our own tastes at odds with each other. More often than not, many peoples’ favorite and least favorite colors fall somewhere in the tertiary range. They hold special places in our imaginations and like their neighbors on the color wheel, they retain that influential power to dictate our perceptions, tastes, and moods. These key six are all magnificent colors that are also arguably the most impressive out of the entire color wheel due to the hundreds of variations within them. There are six official tertiary colors: red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-purple, and red-purple. I previously discussed how choosing colors from those categories can help build the foundation of an outfit as they are the most fundamental of all the color groups, but in order to create a truly balanced palette one would most certainly need to include a third tertiary color (or a neutral color but we aren’t there just yet!) If you have been following the other posts in this series, you will know that blue and yellow are primary colors and orange is a secondary color. It is known that the painter Vincent van Gogh once said, “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” While I certainly wasn’t around in the 1800s to ask him to further clarify his point, I take it to mean that he wanted the listener to consider the importance of colors not just on their own but for their relationship with others.
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