[kw-pm] happy new year

[Christopher Calzonetti]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:29:13AM -0500, Rick Price wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Eric - fishbot wrote:
> 
> > I am going to do my best to bring in code for a code critique
> > again.  I think that I have something in mind.  It might be cool
> > (speaking geek-loosely) to talk about different ideas for
> > creating random colours, as discussed re: the quilt software.
> 
> I wonder if purely random colours might not look as nice as complementary
> colours chosen randomly. I'm not really up on art theory, but I remember
> that colours opposite on the colour wheel are supposed to go together.

It seems that indeed discussion on this would be useful, as there are a few
of us who have something to say.

I'd really have to say that while you can indeed get some good colour
matches using strictly complementary colours, you're going to miss out on a
whole lot of nice combinations if you restrict yourself just to those.

Consider a selection of warm, cool or earthy tones.  These are common colour
schemes, especially for quilts.  ie. faded blues and greens.  Dark reds,
browns and greens.

Plus, complementary colour schemes only works if you've only got two
colours (and differing shades of such).  If you wanted to add more colours,
they don't really remain complimentary to the whole.
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Christopher Calzonetti, Technical Lead, Trig.Net
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