Old-School Dark Color Palette: Sportomatic

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Paris Vega
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Inspiration

Cruising through designspiration.net[1] I found an old poster of a Porsche 911 “Sportomatic” at the Nurburgring[2] in 1967.

I was drawn to the green monochrome photo and the overall color scheme. The green and orange reminded me of old video game cartridge labels.

old-game-cartridges

The Porsche poster’s dark background and muted colors are a theme I’ve been noticing a lot lately. This increased awareness started after I switched the color scheme of my code editor[3] to a more aesthetically pleasing and much easier to read format.

Coda color scheme

The New Color Palette: Sportomatic

I decided it was time to give in to the Universe and document this theme with a new color palette. I give you, Sportomatic:

sportomatic-color-palette-2

To download this color palette head over to Sportomatic’s page on ColorLovers.com[4]. They provide every format you could possibly want. Feel free to use it on any project, personal or commercial. I’d love to hear about what you do with it and I would be glad to link to your work.

Sportomatic in use

Here is a pattern I created on ColorLovers to see the new color palette in action:

Retro pattern and color scheme

Footnotes

  1. designspiration.net Back to reference 1
  2. en.wikipedia.org Back to reference 2
  3. joebergantine.com Back to reference 3
  4. www.colourlovers.com Back to reference 4

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