Colour: How to Develop Commercial Colour Palettes

  • Level: Entry
  • E-learning: 1 hour
  • Modules: 2
  • Quiz: Multiple choice
  • Certificate: Digital
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Course overview

Colour plays an essential part in the development of fashion and homeware ranges, it can literally make or break a season.  The aim of this course is to give learners an understanding of the theory of colour, colour trend prediction, as well as how colours can be combined with core/neutral colours to create commercial colour palettes for a season.

In this course, you will learn how to:
  • Define light and colour
  • Describe, measure and talk about colour
  • Recognise the role colour plays on our culture and psyche
  • Identify trend prediction companies and how they develop trend colours
  • Build a commercial colour palette for a season that works with core/neutral colours

Modules in more detail

  1. Colour Theory and the Psychology of Colour – the science of light and colour, the colour wheel, colour schemes and the impact of culture on our psyche
  2. Colour Predictions and Colour Palettes  – who are the major colour prediction companies and what do they do? How to create a seasonal colour palette for womenswear, menswear, kidswear and homeware 

Who is this course for?

This course would benefit anyone either wishing to land a role in a buying department, or someone in an entry or intermediate buying role in fashion or homeware.

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