#ask bebe

“Sure! The first thing you want to remember in creating a memorable scheme is to limit it to two or three main colors. You can use a few more for detail work, but you’ll want to limit the main ones so that people can build up an association between those colors and that character. From there, start picking colors and testing them out! Sometimes you don’t know how well a combination will work until you test it, so don’t judge until you see how it looks.

“Also, when in doubt? Take a look at your favorite brands, movies, and shows. They’ve all been crafted to have a few things associated with them-- tough, cool, classy, luxury, cute, relaxed, fun, free-- these things reach a lot of people and change how we think about certain color combinations as a general public. Piggy-backing on that can be a quick shortcut to conveying a specific idea in your color choices, like dressing your cool, techy character in the colors featured on the Matrix movie posters.

“Dee? A girl? You’ve gotta be joking. He might be one of the least gross boys, but he’s still one of them. Though he’s probably the one with the best sense of color and hygiene--” 

“I am not even going to dignify that with a response. Bebe?”

“You’ve completely missed the point of the Girl’s Council-- the point is that we’re powerful when unified, but that power has to be used carefully. Sure, things got subverted once or twice, but the system is in place to keep us all together-- not to assert ourselves over everyone. No system is perfect, sure, but it’s democratic, not totalitarian.