Hues Tints Shades & Tones Man's Guide To Color Variations In Men's Clothing Colors
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Hi!
I'm Antonio Centeno.
I'm the founder of Real Men Real Style.
I've got a question in that I thought was pretty darn good.
The gentleman is asking me, "Antonio, I want to go with this blue sports jacket.
It is a true blue, a little bit brighter than navies or any of the other colors out there
that you're recommending in the core wardrobe.
Is this an item that I can wear and I'm going to get a lot of miles out of or should I go
with something that's more traditional, perhaps in the navy darker blue?"
This is the question I'm going to answer and I'm going to give you guys a little bit of
information about understanding hues, tints, shades, so I'm going to use some technical
terms.
I'm going to support this with an article over at Real Men Real Style where I'm going
to go into more detail.
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The question that came in is, "Antonio, is this color of blue versatile enough to be
worn in multiple ways like the more traditional navy blue?
I'm not sure if it should be my first purchase, or should I go with the traditional navy?"
The jacket that he's talking about is very similar in color to this jacket right here.
This is a true blue.
It's going to be a brighter blue and it is blue.
Sometimes I use the term -- and I just say "blue".
Get a blue sports jacket; that's going to be interchangeable, but what I mean and what
I'm usually referring to is something in navy.
This is a navy -- actually, a suit jacket.
You've probably seen me wear this in a couple of videos.
It's going to be three buttons, but the point is the fabric is darker, it's solid, and this
is going to be in my opinion the jacket that he should start off with.
I'll explain why here in a second, but it's going to help if you guys understand a little
bit about what do we mean by colors, when you hear the word "hue", when you hear "shades",
when you hear "tints".
I've got a few notes right here, but basically the point is that a hue is the same thing
as a color.
Those terms are interchangeable.
There are 12 -- well, it depends on who you talk to, but there are going to be 12 main
colors.
And when I say hue, those are the original, those are the bright colors.
So the jacket that we're talking about right here, this is going to be blue closer to the
original hue.
Right here, we see how it's pretty bright.
So I'm going to throw out a few terms here and I'm going to explain how we get these
various colors.
When I say the word "tint", what I mean is we have the original hue and we've added some
white to it, so a lot of the colors out there we're going to see are tints.
These are often called pastels as well.
If you look at especially polos, other forms of shirts, we will see them in pastels.
So when you see the word "tint", when you see the word "pastel", understand that it's
a hue basically that has had white thrown into it.
Now, the next term I'm going to bring up are "shades" and that's where navy comes in.
Navy is blue in which black has been added to it, Therefore, it is a shade.
Shades are going to be very common in menswear as well.
They work well with most of our colors.
They're easy to match.
Most clothing out there is going to be in a sense a form of a shade.
The last point that I'm going to talk about is a tone.
I've got a jacket that is -- this one right here, you notice how it's a little bit lighter
blue than the navy.
This one has not so much.
It has a little bit of white, a little bit of black, so gray added to it.
Therefore, it is a tone of the color blue.
Does that make sense?
Again, I'm going to link over to the article and I'm going to go in more detail in the
article, but understand the word "shade" basically means that you've added some black to it,
the word "tone" means that we've added some gray to it, and the word "tint" means that
we've added white to a hue.
Hue equals color.
To answer the question, I'm going to recommend you go with a navy or you go with a little
bit lighter.
Maybe you go with a tone of that navy, so a little bit lighter color than the navy,
but don’t go with the true blue as your first sports jacket.
It's going to be a little bit harder to match.
I recommend that sports jacket maybe for a third of fourth sports jacket, but not your
first one.
All right, make sense?
Take care, gentlemen.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.
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