Crimson & Coral & Yellow

Crimson, Coral, and Yellow create a warm analogous palette from deep passionate red through soft tropical pink-orange to maximum luminous yellow. Coral acts as a pink-orange mediator between the cool-red of Crimson and the pure warm-yellow of Yellow, creating a more romantic and more tropical version of the Crimson-Orange-Yellow progression. The palette reads simultaneously as vivid (three high-saturation warm colors) and gentle (Coral's pink quality softens the transition), making it the most tropical and most visually joyful of the warm analogous trios.

The palette is the visual world of the Caribbean island folk art tradition — specifically the vibrant painting traditions of Haiti (École de Peinture Haïtienne, the Haitian painting school), Jamaica (the intuitive art tradition of Mallica 'Kapo' Reynolds and the Yard Art movement), and Trinidad (the Carnival mas tradition). Caribbean folk art uses exactly the Crimson-Coral-Yellow palette as its most joyful and most culturally authentic warm expression: the deep crimson of hibiscus flowers (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, the most important Caribbean decorative flower), the vivid coral-pink of the bougainvillea (Bougainvillea spectabilis, ubiquitous throughout the Caribbean as the most colorful ornamental vine), and the warm vivid yellow of the tropical sun, yellow allamanda flowers, and the warm golden midday Caribbean light.