The Pantone Color of the Year 2012 has been announced today.
It’s called Tangerine Tango – a warm reddish orange that’s “reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset”:
Pantone Color of the Year 2012, Tangerine Tango
Of course you may want to include Tangerine Tango in your jewelry designs if you have components in that color.
But as always, many people will probably be wearing clothes in this color.
So you may also want to consider creating jewelry in colors that are compatible with it.
Here I’ve put together some color ideas for creating jewelry to go with the Pantone Color of the Year 2012:
Monochromatic Colors:
Here’s a monochromatic palette based on Tangerine Tango:
Complementary Color:
This a range of greens is based on Tangerine Tango’s complementary color (the spearminty green at the far left):
Triad Colors:
These muted blues would provide a cool contrast to the heat of Tangerine Tango:
For fun and summer action, this lime palette would be a kicky contrast:
Analogous Colors:
This range of gold, tan, and brown would work well as an earthier accent:
And for the folks who can mix colors boldly, dive into this range of pinks:
Personally I was surprised that the 2012 color is almost a “next door neighbor” of Honeysuckle, the 2011 Color of the Year.
I was hoping for a cool-toned color of the year – but maybe next year!
What do you think about Tangerine Tango?
Will you design jewelry in this color, or in colors that are compatible with it – or will you not consider it at all in your jewelry designs for 2012?
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Where do I start? That is some awful color. Maybe it is better in person but I highly doubt it. I’ll have to find a work around for that. And here I thought Emberglow was bad………….
Meh. It’s a color. Not my favorite, as I’ve never been a fan of red-orange hybrid thingies. But you could make it work in jewelry.
Roberta and Kristina, I’m thinking more along the lines of making jewelry in other colors that will contrast nicely with Tangerine Tango, rather than using the TT color itself.
At the moment I’m thinking of rich browns and charcoals that would stand out well against this intense color without looking circus-y next to it.
It looks like a bright coral color. I think it would be great with turquoise for a southwestern theme, black for an Asian theme, dark chocolate brown and wood for a rich fall natural theme and gold or bronze and crystals for a warm lux feel. I like it much better than honeysuckle. It reminds me of my gold fish hybernating under our now frozen over pond. I can also see it with a fiesta of colors for pieces to wear with all of the bright summer outfits.
Rena,
I particularly like Kimberly’s comments. All colors are beautiful and useful in designs, and depending on which colors you use as complements, the finished piece of jewelry can either rock……or sink!
Actually, I love the Tangerine color because it’s vibrant in tone, hot and spicy in feeling and serves Winter people’s wardrobe quite well….like mine!
Silver is going to extra lush next to that warm color. Think texture in your metal, pearls, herkimer diamonds, citrine, amber, mexican opal, green Tibet turquoise, Lapis Lazuli, dark red coral, chocolate diamonds, riverocks in all their earthiness, matte lava rock, chrysophrase, moonstones, apatite,…can’t wait!!
If you would like to explore color palettes for your jewelry designs, here’s a great site to take a look at…Design Seeds.
http://design-seeds.com/
Lynda
A great color tool is http://www.colorschemer.com/ I use it all the time. I like this colour, but I think it must be muted – it is possible. Thanks for the heads up!
I agree with Rena, those will be nice complimentary colors. However, I love bright colors, I made some beautiful pieces last fall in honeysuckle… the color reminds me of candy..jewelry can be yummy too!:)
I like the Tangerine Tango. I love color, and with that type of a shade I’ve enjoyed using, and wearing myself, turquoises or plum tones. I also love the Honeysuckle. I’m drawn to bright colors, and if they’re combined properly they can look beautiful, not garish.
Coral is awesome combined with turquoise. Those who string gems could make some great stuff with that color. I am a silversmith and sell about everything I design with spiney oyster- pretty similar but used in small doses. Also it is very close to carnelian which is a good seller. Think accent colors with that scheme.
Jean
I personally don’t bother with what’s hot and what’s not but I’ll think of this as a challenge. I can see this coral-like color with turquoise and greens, maybe browns and charcoal as well.
I’ll admit it – I thought Tangerine Tango was a horrid color when I first saw it. I think I even said, “Ick!” out loud.
My immediate thought was that it was a color to work around instead of with.
But now that I’ve gotten used to it, I appreciate it more. It’s still hot and bright – but as a lot of you have mentioned, there really are a lot of fascinating color possibilities for coordinating with it.
I’m especially inspired by the thought of combining it with turquoise, as many of you insightfully suggested.
And thanks also to Lisa and Lynda for sharing those additional color tools!
It is growing on me. I personally stay away from oranges due to my skin color. I think younger people may like it. My son’s 23 y/o girlfriend saw it and thought it would look great with lime green. I would never have chosen that combo. I made her an anklet with carnelian and lime green crystals. Wow! it did look good.
Colors and styles in jewelry industry is changing constantly, more colors and materials will come in 2012. I personally don’t like Tangerine tango. I like dark shade colors in jewelry.