Color In The Mat

Often the artist has some focal point that contrasts with the background colors.

Color in the mat.

If the piece has a focal point and there are background colors you can. In general using the dominant colors of the art in the mat draws the eye to the art rather than to the framing. Using the dominant colors in the art. If you choose this method the eye of the viewer will be drawn to the art.

If you mat with those background colors the artist s intended focal point will still draw the eye to it. Consider a pale forest green for a barn in front of a out of focus forest or light blue to complement the distant sky of a cityscape. The short names and long names are character vectors that specify one of eight predefined colors. New colors for buttons can be submitted simply by using the mat prefix on our custom color class.

The intensities must be in the range 0 1. A very common way to choose a mat color for your portrait or piece of art is to choose one that will help bring out the dominant color of the piece. For example if a blue button was desired but blue was not either the primary or accent color defined in your material theme a class can be created to be used alongside primary or accent. As long as the mat color is borrowed from one of the secondary or tertiary colors in the artwork a color mat can work well.

Choosing a mat color based on dominant colors.