Pastel (color)

Pastel sticks in pastel colors

Pastels or pastel colors are the family of colors which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low to intermediate saturation.^[1]^[2] The name comes from pastels, art media characteristic of this color family. The colors of this family are usually described as "soothing",^[3] "soft", "near neutral", "milky", "washed out", "desaturated", lacking strong chromatic content.

Pink, mauve^[4] and baby blue are typical pastel colors.

Gallery

Gaiety pastels
Crochetted pink bra from the 1940s on a clothes line
Pastel-colored beads

In fashion

The 1980s saw a huge trend in the use of pastel colors in men's fashion. In particular, the NBC television police series Miami Vice popularized what was already a growing trend even further as its lead character Sonny Crocket (Don Johnson) all but exclusively wore pastel shirts and suits, setting a fashion that stood popular even years after the show ended. The abundance of pastel was also visible in the shooting locations with Art Deco buildings around the Miami area.

References

↑ Gilbert, Beverly Ash (2009). Beaded Colorways: Freeform Beadweaving Projects and Palettes. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books. p. 13. ISBN 9781600613180. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
↑ Whitaker, Jerry C. (1996). "Principles of Light, Vision, and Photometry". In Whitaker, Jerry C. The Electronics Handbook. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press. p. 85. ISBN 9780849383458. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
↑ Clark, Sally (2003). House Beautiful Magazine, ed. House Beautiful Color: Bright Ideas for Every Room. New York: Sterling Publishing Company. p. 27. OCLC 61439232. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
↑ McCarthy, Michael; Felicity O'Dell (2002). English Vocabulary in Use (Advanced). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ISBN 9780521653978. OCLC 49550686. Retrieved July 27, 2013.

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Media related to Pastel colors at Wikimedia Commons

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