Archetypes Branding Concept Quiz Results!
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Scroll down to find your archetype,
its associated 'Esoteric Colours',
(see the full Graphictional Design Palette at the bottom of the page)
and a brief historical description of your colours!
Scroll down to find your archetype,
its associated 'Esoteric Colours',
(see the full Graphictional Design Palette at the bottom of the page)
and a brief historical description of your colours!
Sinopia is a natural earth pigment derived from iron ochre, popular in the Renaissance for flesh tones and shadows. Bistre was made from boiled wood soot and was used for the deep sepia tones we see in Old Master drawings.
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Caeruleum, a rich 'sky blue', may have been made from azurite or produced artificially from copper as 'Egyptian blue' in ancient times. Claire de Lune (French for 'moonlight') is a subtle type of Chinese porcelain glaze.
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Cochineal was discovered by the Aztecs, and its carmine colour became a popular trade good in the fifteenth century. Madder dye is derived from the root of a plant in the Rubiaceae family - which also includes coffee!
Verjuice is a type of medieval condiment made from unripe fruit, made popular again for its fresh, clean taste. Camilla Green is a rare Spode porcelain hue that may have been based on the colour of fresh tea leaves.
Gamboge is a golden-brown resin used to dye the traditional 'saffron' Asian monks' robes. Massicot is a bright, heavy lead-based pigment which dates back to the 1300s and was primarily used in illumination rather than painting.
Lampblack, essentially soot, is a strong, opaque, and stable pigment. Caput Mortuum may have derived its name as a 'residue' from certain alchemical workings, but was also known as 'cardinal purple' for its popularity in painting religious robes and patron's gowns.
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Bice is a mysterious colour - it can be blue, or green, or anything in between, and its name might come from the old French 'bis', meaning 'dark'. Celadon is an equally flexible hue from ancient Korea, running from grey-green to turquoise to aquamarine, depending on the potter, the pigment, and the clay.
Tyrian is the famous 'royal purple' of Roman times, reserved for emperors because of its scarcity and expense. Japanese Violet was also known as Murasaki purple in the traditional names for kimono dyes - the pen name chosen by a famous author and poet of the Heian-period Imperial Court.
Permalba is one of the youngest hues here, being a twentieth-century titanium paint. Isabella Linen was named either after an incarcerated queen who was scant of sheets, or one who vowed not to change her petticoats while her husband was away at war. Either way, 'couleur isabelle' became famous.
Drunken Beauty is a subtle peach-bloom porcelain glaze, so named after the Peking Opera character of the 'flushed dancer'. du Barry is of course the lovely maîtresse-en-titre of Louis the Fifteen, who lent her name to her favorite hue of rose pink, later to become a porcelain tint as well.
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is this carefully-researched palette of historical and rare colours
you won't find on the Pantone or paint manufacturers' lists!
If you fall in love with one, or more, of these esoteric hues, do feel free to click here to commission a custom moodboard around it!