Hot and cold

This American Eagle golf shirt is another example of warm and cool contrast—warm tones of red-violet punctuated by a stripe of cool light blue-green. The stripe is such a break from the other tones that your eye immediately goes to it and the cool hue has a sort of soothing effect. Also an example of contrast of proportion: the blue colour wouldn’t be nearly so interesting if it were used throughout the shirt.

Subterranean Homesick Violets

This book cover shows an example of warm and cool contrast. The warm red-violet hue of Dylan seems to be coming forward out of the cool violet and blue background. There are also some discords going on, with the lighter violet against the darker blue, and even the darker red-violet against the light violet. The result creates a jarring effect for this “Icons of Pop Music” series that echoes Andy Warhol’s iconic pop culture silkscreens.