Colour · Transitions
Iridescent & holographic
Shifting, oil-slick or chromatic sheen.
A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under colour: what is the colour strategy?
- styles make it
- 12
- as a defining choice
- 0
- as a usual one
- 2
- now and then
- 10
- avoid it
- 6
Styles that often use it 2
A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.
Styles that use it now and then 10
An occasional choice in these styles.
- Đông Hồ & Hàng Trống Folk Prints1600–present
- Pakistani Truck Art1947–present
- Afrofuturist Design1970–present
- Kinshasa Popular Painting1970–present
- Rave & Acid House Graphics1988–2000
- Frutiger Aero2004–2013
- Vaporwave2011–2017
- 'Good Morning' Greeting Images (WhatsApp Forward Vernacular)2013–present
- Post-Binary Typography (Bye Bye Binary and Inclusive French Type)2018–present
- Glassmorphism2020–present
It often goes with
Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.
- Gradientsin 10 of 12
- Cosmic & celestialin 9 of 12
- Chrome & 3D renderin 7 of 12
- Gloss & highlightsin 7 of 12
- 3D renderin 6 of 12
- Web & CSSin 7 of 12
Styles that avoid it
Styles that deliberately leave it out.