Achromatic Base, One Color Dominant

A space demonstrating the color structure of New Chinese style. The base color occupies over eighty percent, all achromatic or extremely low-chroma: off-white walls, dark walnut wood, charcoal grey accents, light grey carpet. On this quiet base, only one color is chosen as the main tone—for example, bamboo green, appearing in three to four places: the silk surface of a screen, a throw pillow, a porcelain vase, a detail in a painting, distributed at different heights and depths in the image, connecting the viewer's gaze. Beyond this, there is no second color. Because the structure is clear, the space has a distinct color personality without being chaotic. In one corner of the image, a version using four colors is shown for comparison, losing focus. Avoid: making the two versions similar, adding a second color to the correct version, letting the main tone's area exceed twenty percent, using high-saturation colors.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個示範新中式配色結構的空間。底色佔八成以上,全部是無彩度或極低彩度的:米白的牆、深胡桃的木、黛色的局部、淺灰的地毯。在這個安靜的底上,只選一個彩色作為主調——例如竹青,出現在三到四處:一片屏風的絹面、一個抱枕、一只瓷瓶、一幅畫的局部,分佈在畫面的不同高度與深度,把視線串起來。除此之外沒有第二個彩色。因為結構清楚,空間既有色彩的個性又不混亂。畫面一角以使用四種彩色的版本作對照,失去焦點。避免:讓兩者相似、在正確版本加入第二個彩色、讓主調色的面積超過兩成、使用高彩度的顏色。