Color palettes for eras in my head, set by movies/tv
80s: Dark blue and black, grainy
90s: Grainy indoor pastels, lemon yellow dominant tone
Bush era: curiously no color signature
Obama era: Sky blue, mainly due to USA blue sky tv
Great Weirding: Puke green and purple
Covid: tbd
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I don’t think I was watching much tv during Bush admin for whatever reason, but I suspect it was brown/gold/khaki/olive set by HBO Sopranos, Iraq War imagery etc. Militaristic time.
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I don’t think these are personal. I think these are the canonical color schemes for the US at least.
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Would’ve leaned to more of a Fushcia for 80s. Big hair, ostentatious pink, Miami-ish collars, pre dawn Euro-techno flair, raw analog graphics.
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Covid is all about bookcases and low fi webcam footage. The palette is the limited gamut of device cameras.
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You should do a comparison chart of movies/TV palettes against kitchen appliances/cabinets color palettes. One of the easiest ways to date a US home is kitchen colors. Lots of consumer marketing behavioral psych went into adopting new “looks”
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