This week's color is Peach - a light orange-yellow tint!
Peach works best when paired with darker, more saturated colors or neutrals. For spring, I particularly like it with pastel purple (you can check out my lavender/salmon pink color scheme from March to see a similar color inspiration board!).
Fun facts about Peach:
1. The first recorded use of the English word peach as a color was in 1588. The name comes from the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. Like the color aprioct, the color peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.
2. In 1962, Crayola renamed their "flesh" color "peach" after the civil rights movement pointed out that this color only represented the average color of the flesh of Caucasians.
3. In Chinese culture, the color peach represents immortality. The mythological peach tree of immortality, thought to be on a mountainside in western China, blooms only once every 3,000 years and is a key concept of the Taoist religion.
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Peach works best when paired with darker, more saturated colors or neutrals. For spring, I particularly like it with pastel purple (you can check out my lavender/salmon pink color scheme from March to see a similar color inspiration board!).
Fun facts about Peach:
1. The first recorded use of the English word peach as a color was in 1588. The name comes from the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. Like the color aprioct, the color peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.
2. In 1962, Crayola renamed their "flesh" color "peach" after the civil rights movement pointed out that this color only represented the average color of the flesh of Caucasians.
3. In Chinese culture, the color peach represents immortality. The mythological peach tree of immortality, thought to be on a mountainside in western China, blooms only once every 3,000 years and is a key concept of the Taoist religion.
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Follow Invites by Andrea on Twitter!
"Like" Invites by Andrea on Facebook!
Shameless Plug Time: Love this color? Looking for custom stationery made to match this color (or whatever other color combinations you're using for your event)? Visit Invites by Andrea to view more samples, download a catalogue pdf, or fill out a design request form. Or shoot me an email to ask me your questions or learn more information.
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