Color Palettes From Antiquity
For Giving Your Designs Some Gravitas and an Occidental Vibe
Pantone, the color system used worldwide to standardize color, chooses a brand new shade to promote every year. 2019’s tone, “Living Coral,” is a golden-undertoned medium-value salmon, meant to symbolize the integration of nature and social media (do your colors not do that?).
The “nurturing color,” meant to “embody our desire for playful expression” also reminds us that humanity may have precious few years left as our planet heats up, melting glaciers and boiling all the color off of actual coral reefs. Bummer. Instead of worrying about all that stuff that’s outside of our control, and probably invented by communists to steal our genders, why not decorate your life with colors that remind you of better times—greater times—when colors had no political tinge to them and men were men? Stand your ground against the twin evils of blue-haired feminism and white supremacism and decorate your life using the colors of ancient Greece and Rome. To provide some chromatic inspiration, I’ve carefully curated 12 different color palettes, each derived from Greek and Roman masterpieces and how they definitely looked in antiquity.
