The "Contrasts" of Color among Planium Metals for Classic and Innovative Scenarios

The "Contrasts" of Color

In our language the word "contrast" often takes on a negative connotation, so much so that it is used to indicate an accident, a conflict between groups and people. In the history of color and therefore of aesthetics, this is not always the case, on the contrary: it is precisely the coupling of what is dissimilar, sometimes completely antithetical, that generates a fruitful harmony. Think in this sense of the study of complementary colors, often placed on purpose one next to the other to stand out. Or the choice of Pantone in 2021 to put together two meanings and two colors so far from each other, Yellow and Gray.

This is one of the cases to consider for Planium metals, since with their chromatic diversity these light up each other in an Interior Design project. The Tiziano red of the Copper, for example, can make a pleasant “contrast” if placed next to the Air Force Blue of the Calamine, or a cold brushed stainless steel. All types of steels work well with dark Calamine, but above all warm tones: a metal, for example, with golden shades such as Brass. Then there is the possibility of daring and playing with more unexpected and unusual, less classic, almost completely new combinations: bringing the brown Oxidized Steel closer to the Stainless Concrete- which is light gray; or finalize a composition with multiple metals using Calamine as a watershed to generate different series.

On the other hand, complementary colors are also often used in advertising or design in combination with each other because in proximity they strengthen each other's brightness, generating luminescences a bit in the style of color-blocking of the 80s: Green with Red Magenta, Purple with Yellow, Orange with Cyan Blue.

Certainly the complementarity and a certain possible "interlocking game" lies not only in the colors, but also in the shapes that are chosen to match the metals laid on the wall or on the wall: triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons etc ...