inversorine

Inversorine is a rare and subtle color effect that is found in applied arts and design. It is characterized by a combination of two or more colors that are not complimentary, but create an impression of being inversely related to each other.

This color aesthetic is often achieved by juxtaposing colors that have a similar lightness level and a moderate saturation, which can create an interesting interplay of visual relationships. Inversorine is commonly observed in textile, dyeing, and quilting, as well as in digital design, where designers experiment with applying this aesthetic to digital colors and arrays.

The primary characteristics of inversorine color scheme is the absence of any direct chromatic relationships and the reliance on the inferred qualities between the colors. This phenomenon can be ascribed to the reconstruction of color space, by visual mind’s eye rather than being dictated by additive or subtractive color model.

Artists and designers who are interested in inversorine aspire to balance the subtle variations of implicit shades, producing a relatively complex and ambiguous color space where different scope potential interactions can result from an inch forward combination of these reciprocal colors.