Never Struggle With Block Palettes Again

Do you wish you

never

had to fight with pallets of

block

s

again

? I built a basic house and then designed it with 100 unique color combinations. So I will show you the best ones and you will also be able to access all the

palettes

, with fully detailed lists of materials. I'll reveal the simple system I used to create them so you can make your own, and give you Quick Tips along the way that can dramatically improve your creations. Okay, let's play a game. Can you guess what these two

palettes

have in common? And what about these 2? Don't worry if you have no idea, I promise it will make sense.

I'll show you a few more pairs, so you can continue enjoying or playing. Alright, in order to give you the answer, I need to explain how I created these palettes. Or in other words: how did I find

block

s that look good together? I used a simple system. It follows 3 steps and has helped me go from this to this, from this to that and from that to this. First, choose a block you like. Now we need to find a couple more blocks that are friends with the first one or make it stand out. But once

again

, don't worry.

We are not going to blind or try to look at it. We will rely on the tools. The first is something you shouldn't see in Minecraft... This circle is a color wheel. This is quickly how it works. It has 3 parameters. Tone, which is basically the color. Saturation, which is the intensity of the color. And the brightness, which is how light or dark the color is. Change these parameters to create any color and the color wheel will give you a hexadecimal code in return. That's the name of the color. But it's useless! Unless we use a second tool.

From now on I want you to think of blocks, not as materials, but as colors. You see, if you move far enough away from a block, its details will begin to fade and only its color will remain. Our tool, the color translator, will help us go from a color to a block, and from a block to its color. Let me summarize for a second. We choose our favorite block. Now it's time for step 2. But how does it work? How we use the tools, right? We can translate our block to its color and then place it on the color wheel.

Now, remember, we need to find his friends or make him stand out. Friends are colors close to the one we choose. In color theory, they form an analogous harmony. You could adjust the range so much that you end up with variations in saturation and brightness of a single color. These harmonies are the common point of the following palettes, from the game from the introduction. Colors that will make our block stand out and live on the other side of the color wheel. Together they form a complementary harmony. You could even split the complementary side and choose 2 distant colors.

Here are some examples from the introductory game. You can combine complementary and analogous colors for a single palette. But be careful, limit yourself to a maximum of 4 colors or you will end up with overwhelming designs. Simplicity is key. So we have defined our colors, let's convert them into blocks, so we can move on to the final step. There are several ways to arrange the same colors in your build. Pillars, trim, stripes, you name it. In a palette, patterns are just as important as colors and can dramatically change the look of a home. And to take your palette to the next level, you can use doors, flowers, and small details to reflect a color you're already using or to add a bright accent to a desaturated home.

Now you can create your own palette or see the 100 I have created and choose yours. But that is not enough. It's just 1 of 3 steps to building the home of your dreams. Watch this video below to learn a simple system that will help you create beautiful homes. See you around.