Color Scheming

Week 5 Assignment: Color Scheming and Nameplates

The Mission:We had to take a photograph of a colorful thing outside so we can use it to help us create our color schemes and nameplates. 

Step One: The Photograph

  This photograph gave me great inspiration in creating my color schemes and nameplates. Like I stated earlier in the mission we needed to create color schemes and nameplates. It makes it much easier for me because this photo has 3 main colors(yellow, red, and orange). It's not too much, it's not as much, it's just right! 

Step Two: Color Swatch

      The objective of doing color swatches was to look at the different tints of each color that was displayed in the photo above. These colors are basic colors that you see on any flower. It was interesting to see how the light the tint of the orange and red colors looked.  

Step Three: Nameplates

      The reason I chose Arial bold as my typeface because I wanted my nameplate to stand out. I wanted my nameplate to look professional but at the same time not boring. I used brackets in my nameplates because they make my nameplate look structured. I focused a lot on the center of each text box. Everything has to look neat and structured to me.

     Finding the right color scheme was not an easy process for me. I’m not the creative type. It took me a while to find the right set of flowers with all the right colors that satisfied me. When I was looking for colors I was looking for flowers that weren’t too colorful and could help in creating my color schemes and nameplates.  The flowers that I decided to choose were red, orange, and yellow. I know what you are thinking, “these are basic colors”. You are exactly right but sometimes you have to stick to the basics. I don’t have a particular reason why I chose all of these colors. I just found a set of flowers that had a mixture of colors that I hadn’t seen before and I thought it was interesting because I thought that I wouldn’t find another set of flowers that would look like this. Plus it took me a while to find these flowers.