All right. 1
We know that picking good colors is a very important thing to do in designs. 2
But how do we know what's a good color? And what's a bad color? You might be thinking: 3
"Oh no I have terrible taste in colors." 4
Don't worry I don't have a good taste either, 5
but there is a trick to picking colors. 6
And the trick is to not to pick the colors from your head or directly inside Figma. But to steal colors. 7
From some sort of inspiration. 8
This can be other design work like websites, or illustrations, or posters...whatever. Or even from real world like 9
photos. 10
In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how to use the world around us, as our inspiration for our colors. 11
Sampling colors from the real world like people, nature, animals, will almost always give you great results. 12
Why? 13
Because most of us already agreed that an orchid looks beautiful, but a cockroach not as much. Picking 14
good colors is only half of the job. 15
The second half is actually matching the right colors together, using real world as our inspiration solves 16
this problem too. 17
Because most of the time, natural world provides great color combinations. 18
This photo of a lion looks beautiful. 19
If we find a color palette that is already on this image, we can be sure that most of the time, these 20
colors will really go together. 21
Otherwise we wouldn't find a photo of this lion as appealing. 22
We can sample a few dominant colors from the image. 23
And now, we have a color palette that is natural and harmonious. 24
Here's where it gets interesting. 25
Let's say, we are designing a section that looks something like this. 26
If we keep this photo and use it in our design, together with our new color palette, we're going to get 27
some really good looking results. Because we're not just matching colors together, but we are actually matching 28
colors with our image. 29
We can then play around and use these colors for text, or backgrounds, or create very interesting color 30
combinations. 31
Look at that. 32
It's like magic and I wasn't the one who came up with these colors. 33
Mother nature did.