Orange
Orange, famous for being the only word in the English language that had no other words to rhyme with, is now a rising star in the fickle world of color usage. Hyped with words like energizing, exciting and stimulating, the bastard child of the color family is enjoying its day in the sun. An interesting turn of events as orange has long been viewed as a low-rent color choice in design circles, mainly relegated to use in the food service industry and children’s toys.
Six weeks ago, my hair stylist, who owns the salon, showed me a layout in a spa magazine featuring an orange based interior design. I recognized the image as one from a recent design magazine ad for Harmonic Environments makers of indoor water falls. She wanted to know what I thought of the color and if it could work in one of her rooms. I told her that orange has been showing up in all of the design mags and would probably work well if she handled it properly. Just yesterday, I went in for a cut and found six painted swatches of various oranges on a wall with a pile of paint chips and magazine pages close by.
So there you go. There is no bad color only bad color usage. If you like it, use it – just use your colors well and you can’t go wrong.
