Mosaic and Floor Tiles: A Touch of Color

A small-sized colored tile. This is a common practice in mid-20th century public buildings: small square mosaics or plain floor tiles, in colors such as mustard yellow, brick red, or dark green, laid in a regular grid to cover a section of a wall or a patch of floor. The grout lines are dark gray. This is the only chromatic surface in the entire space, and its area is not large. Avoid: using large modern tiles, making the colored area too large, using high-chroma bright colors, laying tiles in complex patterns.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片帶顏色的小尺寸磁磚。它是二十世紀中期公共建築常用的做法:小尺寸的方形馬賽克或素色地磚,顏色是芥末黃、磚紅或深綠,以規則的網格鋪滿一段牆或一塊地面。勾縫是深灰的。這是整個空間裡唯一有彩度的表面,面積不大。避免:使用大尺寸的現代磁磚、讓彩色的面積過大、使用高彩度的鮮豔顏色、把磁磚鋪成複雜的圖案。