Contrasting Colors Are Necessary: Red with Blue and Red with Green

Clashing colors are necessary: red with blue and red with green. A space that deliberately uses high-contrast color schemes. Vermilion walls are paired with saturated lake blue cabinets, or crimson with bamboo green soft furnishings. The two colors have similar areas, pushing against each other, separated by off-white or light wood. This traditionally clashing color scheme is a hallmark of Guochao (Chinese trend). Avoid: using safe monochromatic color schemes, reducing one color to just an accent, adding a third or fourth strong color, or desaturating both colors with grayscale.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個刻意使用高對比配色的空間。朱紅的牆面配上飽和的湖藍櫃體,或是絳紅配上竹青的軟件,兩個顏色面積接近、互相頂住,中間用米白或淺木色分開。這種傳統上被認為犯沖的配色,正是國潮的標誌。避免:改用同色系的安全配色、讓其中一色縮到只剩點綴、加入第三第四個強烈的顏色、用灰階把兩色都調淡。