How to pick the least wrong colors
I'm not an artist but I make things and paint things and cook things and plant things (is horticulture an art?) and make music.I have my "rule of three." Pick any three colors and use them together (my foyer is brass, evergreen-ish, and mint) - they work visually for everyone I've met. Pick any three musical notes, even on a microtonal scale, and they form a pleasing chord. Any three simple flavors (chocolate, dill, and cayenne?) may be weird but interesting but not overwhelming.This echoes the rule of three from Latin rhetoric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)With any three things, you have harmony to humans. More than three and it's iffy. Again, I'm not an artist (so I stick with threes!).Who's done research in this? Art? Historical? Cog psych? It seems like there's something revealingly human in this.Anyway, I would like to see the analysis re-run with triples. The author even says:> for just three colors, there are more possible palettes than there are atoms in the universe