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Don't pick a racquet that's been made. This is about a new look.
You're a new hire at a racquet company and you're in charge of coming up with the paint job of your ideal racquet. The head of the company tells you not to worry about sales, and instead create exactly the look you personally would like to have.
Below is a description of the color wheel. Don't say "I'd make my racquet blue and yellow". That's not descriptive enough. Which blue? Which yellow? There are basically three hues for each major color family. For instance, there are three basic types of blue that range from a violet-tone through a middle blue to a green-tone. Bluegreen is neither a blue or a green. It's in the middle of both colors. But, try to stick with the color names I listed. Then, you have to figure out how strong the color will be. Will it be full strength, or will it be greyed, browned, blackened, or pastel? For instance, the green color used for Army camouflage is a green that is greyed. Carnation pink is a red that's been made pastel by adding white.
After you pick one or more colors, you have to decide whether those colors will be metallic (big or small chips), satin/pearlescent, interference (new paint colors that change depending on the angle), or normal. You also can choose the level of gloss: flat, semi-gloss, and glossy. Will the racquet have a pattern, like the barber-pole stripes of some of the Dunlop grips or the Wilson W line? Will the name or technology names be big, small, or very hard to see? Will it be marketed with a special string color?
The color wheel:
Violets:
Red-violet (Cobalt violet light or rhodamine)
middle violet
bluish violet (Cobalt violet deep or carbazole)
Blues:
Ultramarine (purplish)
Phalo (middle blue)
Manganese (greenish)
Reds:
Crimson (bluish Anthraquinone)
Naphol (middle red)
Vermilion/Scarlet (orange-tone)
Orange:
reddish orange
middle orange
yellowish orange
Yellows:
Lemon (greenish)
Sun (middle yellow)
Schoolbus (orange-tone)
Greens:
Chartreuse (yellowish)
Grass (middle green)
Emerald (bluish)
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Black
White
Grey (specify violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red)
Pastel (such as carnation pink, mint green, sky blue, and lavender)
Brown (specify.. reddish, yellowish, etc.)
Gold, Silver, Aluminum, Copper
Metallic, Satin, Flat, Glossy, Fluorescent
Big stripes? Pinstripes? Two colors?
You're a new hire at a racquet company and you're in charge of coming up with the paint job of your ideal racquet. The head of the company tells you not to worry about sales, and instead create exactly the look you personally would like to have.
Below is a description of the color wheel. Don't say "I'd make my racquet blue and yellow". That's not descriptive enough. Which blue? Which yellow? There are basically three hues for each major color family. For instance, there are three basic types of blue that range from a violet-tone through a middle blue to a green-tone. Bluegreen is neither a blue or a green. It's in the middle of both colors. But, try to stick with the color names I listed. Then, you have to figure out how strong the color will be. Will it be full strength, or will it be greyed, browned, blackened, or pastel? For instance, the green color used for Army camouflage is a green that is greyed. Carnation pink is a red that's been made pastel by adding white.
After you pick one or more colors, you have to decide whether those colors will be metallic (big or small chips), satin/pearlescent, interference (new paint colors that change depending on the angle), or normal. You also can choose the level of gloss: flat, semi-gloss, and glossy. Will the racquet have a pattern, like the barber-pole stripes of some of the Dunlop grips or the Wilson W line? Will the name or technology names be big, small, or very hard to see? Will it be marketed with a special string color?
The color wheel:
Violets:
Red-violet (Cobalt violet light or rhodamine)
middle violet
bluish violet (Cobalt violet deep or carbazole)
Blues:
Ultramarine (purplish)
Phalo (middle blue)
Manganese (greenish)
Reds:
Crimson (bluish Anthraquinone)
Naphol (middle red)
Vermilion/Scarlet (orange-tone)
Orange:
reddish orange
middle orange
yellowish orange
Yellows:
Lemon (greenish)
Sun (middle yellow)
Schoolbus (orange-tone)
Greens:
Chartreuse (yellowish)
Grass (middle green)
Emerald (bluish)
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Black
White
Grey (specify violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red)
Pastel (such as carnation pink, mint green, sky blue, and lavender)
Brown (specify.. reddish, yellowish, etc.)
Gold, Silver, Aluminum, Copper
Metallic, Satin, Flat, Glossy, Fluorescent
Big stripes? Pinstripes? Two colors?
