Seesaw Siya

Am I allowed to use them as that? Like “flower crown to weigh you down” would be such a cool title (or chapter title) for a fic I’m working on rn.

I actually don’t run the color palette blog!

I settled on the name for Versions of You before deciding on the colors. My general hope was for it to mean several things, so your interpretation is intentionally included in that. But I guess the closest analogy to my aim for “Versions of You” would be an art assignment I did in high school where each student drew a self portrait. In this self portrait we partitioned the page and each partition we would change the style of the self portrait to represent a different aspect of ourselves. This could be interpreted as who we hope to be, how others view us, roles we play, changes we’d gone through, who we chose to be, imagined alternate universe versions of ourselves or whatever else we could think of.

Deciding on the colors was surprisingly hard. For something so open-ended as that, one would think that any palette would be fine, right? It was easy to decide that a simple monochromatic or complementary palette wouldn’t be diverse enough for the aim, but a full rainbow seemed just a bit too on the nose. I actually held off for a while because many palette didn’t feel “just right” for the title, but I finally decided that no palette would be perfect and settled on the red, red-orange, yellow, green and blue palette you got. It kind of fits that way. No version of ourselves is “perfect”. Maybe I don’t like the version of me that is a yellow that doesn’t feel quite so sunny (or maybe I do).

Lots of ways!

Sometimes I just have some words rattling around in my brain that feel weighty or silly or evocative and I’ll add them to a list to give to a color pallet later. Sometimes a color palette just feels like something and I’ll make up a name around that. There was a series of palettes that I used fragments of nursery rhymes that I trimmed in a way that felt title-shaped. A handful of palette names come from whatever I was listening to when I made it (Tiny, Tasty Doppelgangers, for example, is a quote from historian Lucy Worsley).