#Utterly beige how to

Most of the time people will choose a well lit spot on the wall to test color where there is the best light. It didn't even look blue in the swatch I painted on the walls, but then once the whole wall was done, bam. How it shifts tells us what to do next to find the right color.

If a color shifts off from its hue family notation, then that indicates the inherent light is not balanced.

Every color of gray belongs to a hue family. Some info is good, some of it is woefully misinformed. They're a lot like design discussion forums. In L*Ch° it means chroma.Īfter reading a million design blogs, I settled on Stonington Gray by Benjamin Moore, and it really looks very blue in the area I painted, after everything I read swore it wouldn't be blue. For example, in CMYK the 'C' stands for cyan. Don't get confused when you see a capital 'C' in spectral data. You can download the color wheel here: The 'C' chroma value in L*Ch° runs on a scale from 0 neutral gray to 100 full saturation.

#Utterly beige how to

Lori, Where do you get the hue and chroma numbers? Do you refer to a website? Here's a video that shows you how to use The hue angle is straightforward and easy to understand. If you've mastered LRV, you can master how to use hue, value, and chroma too. So many have learned how to apply LRV, light reflectance values to the task of choosing paint colors. It enables you to only buy a couple samples, instead of having to buy lots of random samples. A framework of direction is exactly what spectral data (a color's DNA) provides. Direction is actually a really good word to use, CJ. So I appreciate folks like chloebud and Color Zen who remind me that an artistic and intuitive approach is important too. I happen to have a passion for the scientific. Curating a balanced color point of view that embraces the artistic, intuitive, and scientific is something I work towards every day. Extraordinary color expertise is about the art AND science of color. Like I mentioned before, how a color looks matters a lot, it's not just about the numbers.