Tip 14 – Custom color palettes for October

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Learn how to make your own custom color palettes for events and seasons.

The AI often has trouble following specific color cues, but there is an easy trick to get seasonal palettes with minimal effort. The method relies on indirect color associations in the training data that you can discover by asking to see images produced by a simple keyword. There are two steps to this method.
In the first step, we don’t care what the subject is, and we don’t specify an art style. We just ask for “[keyword] colors” and look at the color tones you get back. Usually this will be a set of photographs associated with the keyword. Don’t worry if the photos have nothing to do what what you want to create – just look at the color tones. For example, here is the prompt “oktoberfest colors”

Notice that the content features beer and pretzels – no surprise there! Now let’s ask for an “advertising poster for a beer company. oktoberfest colors.”

We didn’t ask for pretzels, but we got some anyway due to associations in the training data. Even the font is themed for the event. This is one of the few times you will get a correctly spelled word, by the way. The AI is only able to reproduce a small number of very common words.
Let’s try “Halloween colors” next.

Lots of pumpkins, of course. Let’s ask for “a hamster wearing a halloween costume. Halloween colors”.

Cute! Lots of orange, yellow, and black, as well as pumkins.
How about “Divali colors”?

These would work well for “the festival of lights. divali colors.”

You don’t need to ask for a specific event. Here are some “rainbow colors”:

We can use this to paint “a whimsical cottage. watercolor illustration. rainbow colors.”

What do “celtic colors” look like?

Let’s make “a stained-glass window. celtic colors”.