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Types of Aesthetics

*from Aesthetics Wiki

How to create your own aesthetic

Aesthetics 101: Create Your Own Aesthetic

Reminder: It IS possible to mix aesthetics and create your own.

1. Color Theory

The color wheel:

The color wheel is a starting concept of color theory. Primary colors are colors needed to create other colors.

For paint, primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.

For light, it’s red, blue, and green.

For printing, the colors are cayan, magenta, and yellow. They use subtractive color model, using the secondaries from light.

We’ll be focusing on the RYB (red, yellow, blue) model. These colors are mixed to create secondary colors-red+yellow=orange, yellow+blue=green, blue+red=violet.

Complimentary colors:

Colors opposite on the color wheel-red & green, orange & blue, yellow & purple. These colors contrast with each other.

An aesthetic using complimentary colors with full saturation would be Slimepunk. The main colors used are black, green, red, and purples.

An aesthetic using complementary colors at low saturation would be Warriorcore. The main colors used are brown, red, green, and grays. It’s a common aesthetic on tumblr right now.

Full saturation can be an eye strain while low saturation can make certain images pop.

Split complementary colors:

Split complementary colors take two colors on one side of the color wheel (ex: red+orange) and pairing it with a color on the opposite side of the wheel (in this example, blue). This creates a sense of unity and a sense of energy.

An example would be Fallencore.

Analogous colors:

Analogous colors are colors beside each other on the color wheel (ex: red, orange, yellow). These go together harmoniously, creating a sense of unity.

Some aesthetics would be

Light Academia. It’s main colors are beige, off-white, white, plaid, dim shades.

Red. It’s main colors are shades of red.

YamiKawaii. It’s main colors are black, red, pink, purples.

Triads:

Triads are colors equally spaced on the color wheel; red, yellow, and blue or orange, green, and purple.

Some aesthetics would be

Halloweencore. It’s main colors are orange, green, and purple, black, and red.

The Art Hoe aesthetic mainly uses triads-red, yellow, and red.

Hatchimitsu Core also uses some triads in it’s color scheme. It’s main colors are cadmium yellow, navy blue, white, beige, and warm earth tones.

a. Saturation

Saturation uses a high to low scale, where 1 is gray and 10 is the brightest version of the color. This can make something look light or dark, but it doesn’t mean that is is. Saturation is great for focal point, but high amounts of saturation can worsen headaches and seem chaotic. Desaturation can seem tired or old.

Neon/Florescent Colors:

Neons are highly saturated colors, causing a sense of chaos, disquiet, discomfort, and eye strain.

An aesthetic using neons are Psychadelica

Scene uses neon colors, which separates it from emo, which main colors are blacks.

Cyberpunk and Vapor Wave use desaturated colors to prevent too much discomfort. Vapor Wave’s main colors are blue, pink, and purple neons.

Pastels

Pastels are colors that have white added to them, making them tints, and have high value (closer to white than black). Pastels are often baby blue, baby pink, mint, lavender, and lilac.

Some aesthetics using pastels are

Bubble Goth. It’s main colors are silver, blue, white, black, and pastel pink.

Pastel Goth, using black and pastel colors.

Soft Grunge

Pastel Punk, using pastel colors.

Pastel aesthetics can also show femininity. Some examples are

Lolita and Mori Kei (Miri Kei’s main colors are green, brown, white, pink, and yellows).

It can also be used to convey sweetness and happiness, as used in

Cottagecore. Cottagecore uses green, brown, yellow, cram, and off-white colors.

Candycore.

Light Academia can also be put in patels.

Can be used to show child-like qualities like Kid Core, which main colors are pastels, neons, and bright colors.

And innocence and purity, as used in Angelcore and Fairycore.

Earthtones

Earthtones are desaturated colors made to look like nature. It includes browns, greens, blues, and yellows. It can symbolize life, nature, adventure, and the woods.

Some examples of Earthtone Aesthetics are,

Naturecore, Adventurecore (also uses whites/off-whites), and Art Nouveau.

Bright Colors

Bright colors have high saturation, but of any hue. They seem childish and hard to style together or bold and by themselves in a single person or group. These are associated with the 70s and 80s, and 90s-early 2000s.

Some exaples are,

Vintage/Retro

Nostalgiacore. Main colors are magenta, neon greens, bright reds, bright yellows, bright blues, and animal print.

Art Hoe

Hypebeast

Wormcore

b. Value

Value is how much white or black is added to a color. If black is added, its a shade and if white is added its a tint. Value is about how light or dark something is.

Tint=closer to white

Shade=closer to black

Darker colors are more serious, but not more masculine (the “little black dress”), however, tints are seen as purity (white is also seen as pure) and femininity.

Muted Tones

Desaturated colors and low value.

Closer to black.

Used to make things old and official, like in,

Dark Academia. Dark Academia mostly uses earth tones.

Dolly Kei.

Can be used to fit certain eras such as cryptidcore.

Can also be used to seem dull and lifeless such as Lovely Darkness.

Gray Scale and Monochromatic Colors

They’re not actually colors, but are colors with different variations in values.

Examples are

Poolcore, which mainly uses variations in blues.

You can see it in other colors like Purple.

High Contrast

High contrast is a limited color scheme that relies on the contrast of black, dark gray, and white to achieve it’s effect. Many goths use this color scheme.

Examples:

Vampire, mainly uses black and red.

Cybergoth.

c. Others

Jewel Tones

It was originally based off of crystals and precious stones. It’s main colors are medium to low contrasting purples, turquoise, aqua, emerald green, yellow, and red. It’s seen more in fall/autumn.

Some examples are,

(obviously) Autumn; main colors being red, orange, brown, yellow, gold, turquoise, violet, and indigo.

Fractal Art

Ethereal

Crystalcore

Metallic

Metallic rely on metals. They can be silver, gold, bronze, chrome, steel, and copper.

Some examples are

Y2K, using silver and bright and vivid colors.

Kinstugi, main color gold.

Crowcore, using rustic silvers, copper tones, white, green, and black.

Cyberprep, using chrome and leather.

And, arguably, Holosexual, using holographic colors and metallics.

Cool Colors

It can be cool colors like crimson red and ultramarine blue, and make a different feeling than warm toned reds and blues and make better purples and blacks in paintings, or colors associated with winter or water.

Examples:

Sea Punk. Main colors are blue, green, purple, and blue.

Ice Punk. Main colors are white, pale blue, and muted pastels.

Warm Colors

Warm colors are warmed toned, such as Cadimun Red, Cerulean Blue, and Cadimun Yellow. These colors will make better oranges. They’re associated with warmth, summer, or food.

Examples:

Coffee House. It’s main colors are dark brown, black, mustard, forest green, and maroon.

Warmcore. Main colors are soft/pale yellows, warm white, and light grays.

Golden Hour which is about sunsets, sunrises, and the color gold.

No Color Pallet or Scheme

Examples:

Cleancore, main colors being pale blue, white, and mint green.

Goblincore, main colors are earth tones.

2. Suffix Meaning

Academia focuses on academic styles. It doesn’t just focus on studyblr, it can go with other styles like Librarian Chic. It’s not limited to western academics, it can include academics from anywhere in the world.

Core N/A

Goth is a subculture that branches out of 80s punk. Dark clothes, Victorian, and Edwardian era fashion, makeup, and decorations are inspirations, but it has many branches to the aesthetic. Here is more information on goth subculture.

Kei is a Japanese suffix mainly used in the sense of “type”, and can range from theme to personality type.

Punk is referred to as a time rejecting social norms or a subgenre of speculative fiction. It originated with Cyberpunk, born in a new wave science fiction in the 70s. It can involve anything that would fit into the fictional high tech dystopia, including fashion, architecture, music, products, vehicles, etc. Some exceptions are Pastel Punk and Sea Punk.

List of aesthetics are posted seperately