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Colour · Strategy

Complementary clash

Vibrating opposites placed edge to edge.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under colour: what is the colour strategy?

styles make it: 73
as a defining choice: 2
as a usual one: 33
now and then: 38
avoid it: 13

Styles defined by it 2

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Psychedelic Poster1965–1973 · North America, Western EuropeThe concert-poster language of the 1960s counterculture, born in San Francisco's Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms and echoed in London's underground press.
Memphis Design1981–1988 · Southern EuropeThe Milan collective founded by Ettore Sottsass, whose furniture, laminates and objects (first shown in September 1981) became a graphic language of their own.

Styles that often use it 33

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 38

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Full polychromein 65 of 73
Horror vacuiin 49 of 73
Communal & popularin 53 of 73
Abundant decorationin 30 of 73
Ornamented displayin 34 of 73
Hard offset shadowin 23 of 73

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in colour