"Derived from the Base"
Many markings have the option to have their color "derived from the base." This means the marking must be a color that is within a certain range of the specific base coat color(s) you have used in your design.
General Notes:
General Notes:
- Black in a design should never fall below 12 pts on a 255 scale, or under 5% brightness.
- Lighter base coats allow for markings that approach pure white at 255 pts on a 255 scale, or 100% brightness.
- Vertical gradients should have a smooth transition between both colors, and the transition point should be about halfway down the body.
- I.E. You couldn't have a vertical gradient where one color only appears on the feet.
Let's start with a Lapis Niravar. You may choose any color from within the Lapis palette, but for this example we'll use the color marked in green. For a single color Niravar, you no longer need the palette and can put it away. We'll talk about vertical gradients later!
When choosing a color to be derived from the base coat, you're essentially altering its Saturation level and Value or Brightness. You should not be altering Hue at all.
The easiest way to visual this is to take your color slider and paste it into our Derived-from-Base color checker! Our design mods use PaintTool SAI and Clip Studio Paint, but as long as your art program has a square hue cube and is set to HSV/HSB then all you need to do is align that square with our framework as shown below.
The easiest way to visual this is to take your color slider and paste it into our Derived-from-Base color checker! Our design mods use PaintTool SAI and Clip Studio Paint, but as long as your art program has a square hue cube and is set to HSV/HSB then all you need to do is align that square with our framework as shown below.
This is what our design mods use when checking colors.
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The screenshot of the chosen color fits perfectly within the framework of the guide. Our derived-from markings can be any color found within the oval.
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Even if you don't use SAI, you can align your HSV/HSB color square from your art program into the framework and things should still align.
(This example shows Photoshop) |
Pools of the Niravar also allows a two-tone vertical gradient in the base coat using two colors from the same box in a palette. Here are two different colors from within the same box on the Lapis palette. Having two colors as our base coat opens up a whole new palette of colors our markings can be derived from.
Before we could only derive our markings from the palette on the left, but after adding a vertical gradient, we now have access to the palette on the right!
Updated 8/7/2023