Wednesday 29 January 2014

colour palette analysis

 This one goes from green to brown/red. The boldest colour in the palette is the green on the far left. This palette gives a woodland/forest feel to it because of the mix between the green and brown, which are the conventional colours of a tree. This palette is fairly divers in its different shades and how it uses two colours to create the centre one. However, it’s all very blended together so it’s not as diverse as it could be.

This palette might suit an alternative kind of hard-core genre. Bands that fit into this description, such as La Dispute and Counterparts, like to use pictures in their artwork that involve woodland landscapes to create a tranquil atmosphere. This fits the title of the palette too (Comfort).








This one gives more of a resemblance to fire and hot things. This is because of the blends of very bold, loud oranges coming from it. It also has a dark green and a grey. This makes my think of rocks and mountains. Putting these two ideas together creates this atmosphere of volcanoes and lava. The title translates from Portuguese to ‘carrot soup with salmon’ which begins to make sense with the oranges for the carrot and the other colours which are what salmons look like, when they’re alive and intact anyway.

This palette could suit a heavy metal band, probably more from the European region of metal seeing as they tend to keep more to the conventional kind of metal that originated in the 80s (classic and thrash metal), such as Evile. This is because of the firey colours giving a feeling of aggressive power, a kind of persona that heavy metal likes to adopt.



This palette is calmer than the previous but it holds a little more excitement to it to say that it’s tranquil, so to speak. All the colours are loud and bold, making it quite divers in its use but still sticking to some kind of theme with the similarities in the colours. The title is “lovely” which shows in the use of colours. The colours are very feminine and are not aggressive either.

A pop artist, band or act in the more conventional way would use these colours. Most likely a girl bands like Lil Mix. It’s very girly and easy to swallow at the same time, and it resonates with their kind of audience (teenage girls).

This palette definitely fits its title. It’s not diverse at all and all the colours blend together very well. The same colour is used on both sides. It’s all very loud and poor eyesight may even see it all as one colour.

I can see an electronic act using this palette. For example Deadmau5, a house music artist, likes to wear full body tracksuits along with his trademark “Mau5 head” on stage. It’s all one colour, like bright red, blue and so on.  

This one actually reminds me of an ice-cream parlour. The pink looks like strawberry ice-cream and the beige looks like vanilla ice-cream. Ice-cream parlours are often associated with fun and good times so it fits its title. The colours are fairly diverse but they all fit a common theme and are quite soft. The boldest colour is the purple but that’s just because it's the darkest.

I can again see a kind of a pop act using these colours. They create happy and upbeat emotions that would show in a pop act.  

This one reminds me of what it's based on. Going from right to left it shows the stages of a sunset with the focus colour being pink which is right in the middle. That pink is the loudest of the colours although they are all fairly bold. There is some diversity in the palette but not much as the colours tend to be very similar apart from the dark brown on the far left.

I can see an indie or hipster band using these colours as things like sunsets are popular in those sub-cultures and the colours wouldn't go amiss in them.



this one uses pink and purple colours to give an idea of sinking in to hell. Perhaps it is to romanticise the idea of going to hell, which makes the pink very morbid, so it serves as an oxymoron.

this uses diverse but very basic block colours with a grey added on at the end. there's no flow through the colours.

this one focuses on blue and purple to represent a periwinkle and it's colours.



this one has a shade of green that takes up most of the palette that fades into a pink-like colour.

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