Let’s talk about the differences between purple and pink colors and how to use them in your design.
In this colorful life, we come across so many different color palettes and mixtures of them. Let’s see today’s colors pink and purple as an example.
Before jumping into the mixture(combination) of them let’s talk about their characters and some features.
Pink is a loaded color. Pink is a lot more for girls than blue is for boys. There’s a lot of psychology to unpack surrounding the color pink and its gendered associations, but here we’re just gonna cover what pink does in your design and advertising world. Pink can be:
- Fun
- Girly
- Upbeat
- Sweet
- Delicate
- Romantic
- Peaceful
Pink is a popular color for bakeries because it’s sweet, just like the pastries they’re selling.
Purple is mystical and sensual — not a color we see often in nature. Common associations we have with purple include:
- Royalty
- Luxury
- Intrigue
- Magic
- Mystery
- Military honor
- Wealth
- Imagination
- Spirituality
We can see the usage of this color in designs of firms that work with and manages financial circumstances since it has an association which is wealth and royalty.
Pink and purple are two similar colors that are often seen together in many things, such as sunsets and so forth. They are optimistic colors and so popular, commonly used ones.
You can use these colors in your design and they can work well together, however, we don’t know what happens when we combine them. When we add them together there will be such a color as magenta or a light red-purple.
Now I am talking about pink and purple, as well as magenta but I know that you are thinking about different color tones that’s why I wanted to show you types of them with their names and exact color tones.
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