What's your color vibe?
A vibe is a distinctive feeling, or quality, one senses. What a person senses depends on how they feel about themselves, how they interpret design structure, and how what they see is arranged. Below is a quick guide to determining your vibe.
Color Enhancers
Who needs makeup when colors enhance your natural features, highlighting you! Color can make you skin tone, hair and eye color pop!
Spring Colors
These colors have a tendency to go best with light eyes and golden blonde or red shades of hair on people with fair, light, medium, or tan skin tones.
Think nature awaking after the winter. These colors are warm, bright and uplifting.
Colors such as peach, coral, turquoise, daffodils, pink tulips, geranium reds, golds, tan, ivory, sea green, light yellows, darker blues like navy, clear browns, royal purple, or purple like hyacinths.
Summer Colors
These colors have a tendency to go best light eyes and cooler shades of blonde with paler skin.
Think nature after waking up and in the full swing of the growing season. These colors are cool and deep.
Colors such as pale yellow, cobalt blue, cranberry, evergreen, plum, soft white, taupe, fuchsia, muted browns, cool greys, vibrant reds.
Autum Colors
These colors have a tendency to go best with green, hazel or brown eyes with darker and warmer hair color on people with darker more olive skin tones.
Think nature maturing into warm colors just before the winter. These colors are deep, vibrant, and luxurious.
Colors such as rust, mustard yellows, olive, sky blues, dark green, camel, mid-brown, or reddish tones.
Winter Colors
These colors have a tendency to go best with dark or light eyes with dark hair on people with light skin or dark skin with a cooler skin tone.
Think nature after losing all its color to the winter, with gems of cool color pops. These colors are contrasting, cool, lean, crisp.
Colors such as fuchsia, scarlet red, plum, vibrant blues and greens, chartreuse, icy blues, dark greys, black, muted pinks, or silvery colors.
Color Arrangement
Color arrangement conveys a message of feeling:
| Color Arrangement | Feeling |
|---|---|
| Single Colors | One note message, such as Tranquil, Passion, Enthusiastic, Cheerful, Prosperous, Kind, Enigmatic, Sophisticated, Innocenct, or Neutral. An example of a single color is green. |
| Monochromatic Colors | A one note message with depth, tone, highlights, and shade, which creates a stronger and more emotional connection to a single color. An example of monochromatic colors is bright green, medium green and dark green. |
| Complimentary Colors | A two note message that peeks interest, reveals the hidden, flows, boldly contrasts, engages, or excites. Examples of complimentary colors are red and cyan, magenta and green, yellow and blue, etc. |
| Split Complimentary Colors | A message that is chaotic, frenetic, unpredictable, independent, or exuberant. An examples of split complimentary color is magenta, yellow green and green blue. |
| Tetradic Colors | A complex message that is complimentary, contrasting, deep, and energetic. An example of tetradic color is magenta, orange, and medium blue. |
| Analogus Colors | A influential message of connectedness, harmony, calm, or flow. An example of analogus color is magenta, violet, and blue. |
| Triad Colors | A lively or vibrant message, or a subdued and neutral message. An example of triad color is violet, orange, and green blue. |
Design Structure
Design conveys the structure of a message:
Curved Lines
Curved lines deliver softness, comfort, and sensuality. They can convey calm, comfort, ease, energy, or liveliness depending on the dramatic presentation of the curved line.
Straight Lines
Straight lines deliver stability, order, calmness, and reliability. They can convey rest, peace, strength, elevation, dynamism, or power depending on the line's context in the design.
Combination Lines
The combination of strait lines and curved lines deliver a balance between rigidity and nature ore control and relaxation. Gentle yet firm.
Images
Images are like hieroglyphs for the modern age - they communicate many words based on a consensus of understanding about the image. These are messages that can range from the direct to indirect, or abstract messages.
Putting It All Together
By understanding colors that enhance you, color arrangement and design structure, it is easier to identify your vibe. Below are some examples on how to identify your vibe.
| Color Enhancer | Color Arrangement | Design Structure | Vibe Message |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Colors | Split Complementary Colors | Curved Lines | Warm, Lively and Independent |
| Summer Colors | Tetradic Colors | Combination Lines | Deep, Balanced, Fascinating |
| Autumn Colors | Complimentary Colors | Image | Vibrant with direct messaging that peeks interest. |
| Winter Colors | Analogus Color | Strait Lines | Cool, Connected, and Reliable |