Colour · Strategy
Analogous harmony
Neighbouring hues for a unified, calm field.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under colour: what is the colour strategy?
- styles make it
- 36
- as a defining choice
- 1
- as a usual one
- 24
- now and then
- 11
- avoid it
- 3
Styles defined by it 1
For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.
Styles that often use it 24
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
- Hurufiyya Calligraphic ModernismA pan-Arab and Iranian modern-art movement, begun by Madiha Omar in the late 1940s, that freed the letters of the Arabic script from text and used them as abstract visual units.
- Frutiger AeroThe glossy, optimistic look of consumer technology from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s, retrospectively named in 2017 by the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute after Windows Vista's Aero interface and Adrian Frutiger's humanist sans.
- Lo-fi Anime AestheticThe look of YouTube's 24/7 lo-fi hip hop streams.
Styles that use it now and then 11
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Ten Bamboo Studio Colour Woodblock (Douban & Gonghua)1626–present
- Diné (Navajo) Weaving Design1700–present
- Harlem Renaissance Graphic Art1925–1940
- Puerto Rican Silkscreen Poster (DIVEDCO & ICP)1946–1989
- Black Metal Graphics1990–present
- Y2K Futurism1997–2005
- Skeuomorphic UI2000–2013
- Contemporary Chinese Book Design ('Most Beautiful Books of China')2003–present
- Synthwave / Outrun2006–present
- Material Design2014–present
- Claymorphism & Soft 3D2020–present
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- Calm & contemplativein 21 of 36
- Earth & mineralin 22 of 36
- Gradientsin 20 of 36
- Biomorphic curvesin 20 of 36
- Web & CSSin 15 of 36
- Pastelin 14 of 36
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.