Re:The CS6 Desktop Brand System
by gklitt on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:07PM
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Could someone with graphic design background explain why colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel would look like "part of a family" any more than erratically spaced colors? I think the old colors were far more attractive.
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Re:The CS6 Desktop Brand System
by bryanjclark on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:29PM
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"Equally spaced on the color wheel" sounds like something that a manager came up with, and everyone in the room just nodded their heads yes and made it happen.
Bummer.
Re:The CS6 Desktop Brand System
by mortenjorck on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:15PM
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Colors that are equally spaced should look like less of a family.
The old, chromatically clustered colors staked out thematic areas of the color wheel, and by not using the whole thing, retained some degree of ownable identity. The CS6 color palette barely even qualifies as a palette.
Looking at the colour wheel in the article it seems that they choose a set that has high contrast (colours close to each other lack contrast) while haveing a similar degree of luminosity. If they choose erratically then some products would have colours to similar.