Pantone Booklet - Colour Swatches

 The colours that are found within the photograph are all quite muted and grey toned, as it is a picture taken outside, they are all colours that you would associate with nature. The two brightest colours are #66C4D5 and #D4CFCF, when placing these next to each other they contrast against the grey toned colours. When the colours are placed in an analogous order, they seem more pleasing and harmonious to the eye. However as colour is subjective , when the placed complementary, I feel that #B69130 and #166D76 work really well together, as because the have grey tones, due to low saturation they aren't too far away from each other and are created from two primary colours. When relating back to Albers’ ‘Homage to the Square’, where analogous colours have been placed it creates a sense of depth, lightness and darkness, the darker colours look further back, it creates a depth of field. When #D4CFCF and #BAC2CC have been placed next to each other, the colours are too similar to use within a design, as it’s better for two colours to contrast. In conclusion I feel the most successful colour combinations are those when they are placed in analogous order.