Advice for Designers

A reader posted the following comment/question which I thought I would address in this post; “One term you frequently use disturbs me, and that is the word “dirty” to describe those colors which are not bright or primary. Well, dirty can be fun and has it’s place 😉 – – but it doesn’t seem to…

I have secretly always thought that the emphasis placed on the basic ‘rules’ of colour theory were completely overrated. When I worked at Benjamin Moore at the retail level, [many years ago] and colour theory students would come in looking for help on a ‘complementary’ colour combination or an ‘analogous’ colour combination, it always occurred…