You can't miss this: Fun with colors

Hello everyone, this is tangerine, and it is one of my favorite colors. So, I am dedicating my font to it today because I am going to be writing about color and the fun that colors bring to our life.

After working on the M-word project for the past couple of weeks, I have been really thinking about color and realizing that I don't really know that much about colors and putting them together.

I grew up in a very white world, and I'm not talking about the color of people (although it was). The house I lived in growing up was brown on the outside and the inside walls were all this gray/white color. I asked my parents when I was little if I could paint my room pink - every little girl's dream. But I was shot down. It wasn't until I was in high school (we moved into the house when I was in second grade) that my parents added color to our walls (half-of them, in only two rooms). Then I went to college where I lived in a white cinderblock cell and then I have been apartment hopping for 3 years since graduating and living in you-better-not-paint-it-or-we-will-charge-you-out-the-wazzoo complexes. So, the color in my apartment (yes, tangerine in my kitchen and bedroom) is mostly spot color and stands alone.

So, I was very excited when I came across the website Colourlovers.

It has all kinds of color palettes inspired by pretty much everything from fashion to home decor.

I really liked that they took the cover of "House Beautiful" magazine and broke it down into a color palette of five different colors. I imagine that was something that the designers of the magazine did as well.

Not only does the website create those color palettes if you click on one of the colors then it will bring up other palettes that have been created by users of the websites that incorporates that color as well whether you are looking for a color scheme for a room or a wedding.

I think this is a great site for keeping up with different color trends because most of the information seems to be posted by the site's registered users, so I suggest you all take a look at it sometime and maybe you will find some inspiration for your work, clothes or, like me, your apartment.

I am hoping to find a nice coordinating color for the tangerine in my bedroom right now, so this is one of the color palettes I am finding most inspiring because I already have some blue-ish-green pillows:

Thoughts?

Also, note how great that little shrimp looks in the color palette. If only I wasn't allergic to shellfish.