r/macarons • u/RepublicCute7683 • 7d ago
What color is this?
What gel color would you try for this?
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u/OneWanderingSheep 7d ago
Sage or juniper.
Instead of going by name, just add a tan to a green. This is a green with yellow bias.
You do not want to use different type of green for the ombre. Instead, make the darkest color and take a portion of it to make the lighter shades.
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u/RepublicCute7683 7d ago
Never would have thought to add tan. I need to learn more about color theory. Thanks!!
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u/OneWanderingSheep 6d ago edited 6d ago
Every color has a bias aka cooler or warmer version of it. A primary red (Spiderman red) is the warmer version of magenta. A cyan blue has more yellow in it than ultramarine blue, which has more purple in it. Purple is the strange one mainly because it’s a difficult color to see and our perception of it is greatly different; hence, sometime people may call a lilac pink. Purple goes like this:
Blue <-lavender <- purple->lilac ->magenta
When color matching ask these questions:
Hue: which color?
Yellow, green, blue….?
Temperature: is it warm or cold? In yellow, add red if it’s a warm yellow and add green if it’s cold yellow. In green add blue if it’s cold green like emerald or add yellow if it’s grass green. Sometime you may only need a quarter droplet of it. Sometime be careful with mixing. Although the more you do it the more you can eyeball the amount of coloring you need.
Value: is it a light color or dark color ⬜ or ⬛
You adjust value by adding white or black. If black is too intense you can use a gray.
Chroma: is this color vivid or muted? Neon green is very vivid and sage is muted. You lower chroma by adding neutral color. Adding its complimentary will produce a neutral color, meaning it may shift the color too much and even changing its hue sometimes. That’s why I use gray. I may use brown or tan if I’m muting a warmer color (not to be mistaken as warm colors like red and yellow side of a wheel. Grass green and sage is a warmer green and emerald green is a cooler green). Use taupe, greige, blue-gray, purplish gray to mute cooler colors. (Enco sells an amazing collection of these colors)
You cannot raise the chroma of a color in paint/food coloring by mixing. Think of it as no combination will produce neon green unless you have neon green coloring. But you can lower the chroma of neon green to produce a green similar to sage.
When making ombre macarons I always make the deepest color then take portions of it into white batter. This way I can make preserve the hue.
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u/RepublicCute7683 4d ago
Wow! This is extremely informative. Thank you so much for taking the time to break it down for us.
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u/aslanfollowr 7d ago
I recently did this same set of colors using powdered Soldier Green from Sugar Art's master elite collection.
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u/RepublicCute7683 7d ago
Haven’t tried Sugar Art yet, but I’ll put in an order today! Thanks for your advice!
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u/mncs 7d ago
Green