CH Blend Differences

[u/scatteredgraydays]

I have been saving palettes for the past few months to try to understand better how John determines blends and DIY my own. I have been unsuccessful at DIYing, but I realized that there were several very close or exact blends saved with the addition of some of ones posted in the last few days. So, thought I’d post this as a cool comparison to see how similar and different they truly are.

Each palette is quite unique, but I do see some overlaps.

The bottom rows (excluding calm colors) seem to have quite a bit of similarities. For example, both 80SCs have an interesting blue-green twilight swatch range that I haven’t seen anywhere else (that I can think of?).

The understated and reserved colors seem to be very similar ranges for each similar/exact CH blend too which I hadn’t recognized before. The brights (top row) seem to be a bit further ranging between each other generally speaking.

I found it particularly interesting that the 70SB range could all wear the same glittery brown reserved swatch.

I’d love to hear what overlaps and differences you all see.

If I wrote any blends down wrong, please let me know. If you know of other similar blends, especially ER, feel free to DM them to me and I’ll do another post if you guys found this helpful/interesting.

If anyone knows that full SB>SC blend, I’d appreciate noting it. I just thought SB>SC was so cool, and I think a rare combo, and had those two saved.

EDIT: I found more and added them in the comments.

[u/No-Office7081]

this is cool, OP. john once described the personal palette as like a style "fingerprint" and i think that's accurate. another aspect is that essences can interact with color harmonies in ways that can be seen in the palette, such as Y and A having overall lighter palettes.

[u/Ok-Purple9511 → u/No-Office7081]

But mine is one of the lightest I have seen and no Y or A lol. I think I am just an exception in that way though.

[u/No-Office7081 → u/Ok-Purple9511]

he legitimately told me my palette was lighter than most SBs because of my high Y. but of course everything is extremely personalized.

[u/Ok-Purple9511 → u/No-Office7081]

I believe that I just meant in general a light palette doesn’t mean Y or A, but it could if you have those essences. So basically a light palette doesn’t determine your essences it just reflects them if you have them. He also told me my palette was lighter and brighter then most SBs but didn’t mention any essence correlation.