Please note that due to variance in monitor calibrations, the on-screen color representations here are not necessarily precise reproductions of actual paint colors. You may bring any of the color chip numbers to your local AFM Safecoat retailer to match and/or order the exact color that you are looking for.

How to use Ayurveda Essence micro palettes
With Ayurveda Essence micro palettes, getting colors to work together well is easy, because the palettes are self-harmonizing. We’ve done the leg work and removed the struggle and stressful guesswork. Combine colors from within the palettes however you like. You’ll find that stunning combinations are achieved effortlessly. Ayurveda Essence is a succinct, sophisticated system of colors that spans the gamut from the lightest pastels to the most mysterious and deepest earthy tones. A focus throughout the design process was to make the creation of harmonious relationships within each palette automatic.

If you have only previously used your intuition in choosing colors and are unfamiliar with basic color terminology and strategy, we’d like to teach you some key rudiments.

Hue
the word used to describe a basic color range. For example, light blue, mid-tone blue, and dark blue are all hues of blue.

Chromaticness
colors can be very close to primary shades, or they can be mixed with white, black, and other colors. When they lack a mixture of these other colors, they are highly chromatic, saturated, and primary. This makes them very stimulating. It is difficult to combine different hues of highly chromatic colors because this makes for a loud scheme susceptible to clashing.

Value
this describes the amount of white and black used to create a color that is moving away from a pure chromatic hue.

Tint
as a color moves toward a pastel shade, it will include more white

Shade
as a color becomes darker, it will include more black; sometimes referred to as nuance

Tone
a color that has gray added to it (white + black) becomes muted chromatically. Darker shades are denser and less reflective.

It seems that few elements of design throw us more than assembling creative, well-balanced color schemes. Many simply derive choices from a base of feeling and intuition that is not connected to color theory or any system of holistic understanding, and many of us avoid playfulness and complexity altogether.

The purpose of AFMs Ayurveda Essence system is to create an enhanced experience of health by deploying color sets that interact harmoniously with individuals and families.

The best way to use the Ayurveda Essence system is to learn by doing and experiencing. Please bear in mind that a scheme that seems radical or even uncomfortable immediately after completion can easily seem second nature after you’ve lived with it for a month. We constructed our palettes to be strengthening They augment, because balancing hues are grouped together. Those portions of the spectrum that would be the most aggravating for a particular constitution have been avoided in each palette.

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