Help pick a frame color...

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shlammed
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Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

by shlammed

Hey guys,

Im building (framebuilding) an aluminum CX frame with a carbon fork and I need help picking the frame color. If this is the wrong place for this, then let me know and I will take it down.

I will be using carbon seatpost with polished aluminum stem and bars, polished Cannondale SI crank with black chainrings and a polished rear derailleur.


What color would go best with the polished componentry?


Here is the frame design. Long and low.
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Cheers,
Matt



Here is my other aluminum frame I just finished.... but not the complete build.
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Spincycle
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by Spincycle

That's really cool! Color theory principles would suggest that a polished silver and black schema would go well with cool blues, and greens, with red and orange as a sparingly used accent color, perhaps for the bar tape. Personally, I'd go for a shade of cyan. Here are some links to a few online color palette generators that I use to create color schemes in my design work.

https://color.adobe.com/explore/

http://www.colorhunter.com/

reippuert
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by reippuert

Easy: brushed grade 9 titanium.
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shlammed
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by shlammed

hard to do that finish to an aluminum frame.

continuum
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by continuum

How about Camouflage
like this
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RazorL
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by RazorL

Neon colors seem the way to go this year.
Flashy yellow or cherry red would be my pick.

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by SpeedyChix

adrenaline junkie

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