New Color of the Year: New Idea in Design with Spessartite Garnet

Red orange color is the main theme of color direction in the year 2012 for interior design, fashion, cosmetics, graphic design, and jewelry design. Pantone Color Institute announces Tangerine Tango is the color of the year.

Red orange hue color or Tangerine Tango

Red orange color hue is vibrant & powerful. It is reminiscent of sunrise or sunset. Reddish-orange color is lively and brings life to people. In ancient cultures, the sun was recognized as a life-giving force. The sun was power and energy, light and warmth.

Bright orange color is also reminiscent of fire. For example, the vibrant orange of flaming fire when people prepare food or heat to fight cold in winter. Admittedly, fire is essential in everyday human life.

Tangerine Tango is a red-orange hue color. It has sophisticated and dramatic undertones. Just like the different shades of sunrise or sunset colors. An array of color from rich yellow, bright orange, burnt orange, vivid orange red, red yellow, to red orange color is still in this group of color. Look up at shade of sunset colors; you can see an example of color.

Tangerine Tango color promises to provide "the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward" according to a Pantone Color Institute. "Tangerine Tango color is an inspiration to face life's everyday troubles with verve and vigor".

Undoubtly trying to survive in the current unstable economy for years, consumers must have courage to face everyday troubles and frustrations. Furthermore, people in many countries have been affected from the natural disasters resulted from climate change. Tangerine Tango color is definitely a color to energize spirit. It represents courageous, hopeful and optimistic for the bright future the same as a vibrant orange color represents lively and hopeful in the old days.

Tangerine Tango works with many colors in the color palette in many ways. Red orange color as a neutral when paired with other vibrant color. Red orange as a prominent when paired with navy blue, blue green, or green. Bright orange as a complement when paired with hot pink. Red orange also works with brown, khaki, rosy rose, gray, beige, purple, or sweet lilac pink. It is all about color combination or contrast.

In the creative world of fashion design and jewelry design, a designer may use jewelry set with red orange stone to accessorize clothes with other strong color like blue or red. However, bright orange and red orange hue is limited in the gemstone world. Designers mostly choose fire opal, spessartite garnet, and citrine in their selection when consider color and stone properties together.

Fire opal may have an ideal orange color. It has bright yellow or orange, or red orange color in a top quality stone. Precious Mexican opal shows an attractive play of color. And if a fire opal is natural not dyed or synthetic, it will be an ideal stone for jewelry industry because fire opal is inexpensive and still possible to find.

Citrine is also inexpensive and easy to find in jewelry stores. Citrine has yellow body color, sparkle, and a variety in sizes. However citrine is one of the most controversial stone because a synthetic citrine is difficult to distinguish unless identifying through laboratory. What gemstone in red orange hue to choose to accessorize clothes in jewelry design? Spessartite garnet is the most desirable choice.

Spessartite garnet is outshining fire opal and citrine in term of brilliance, range of colors, stone properties, and value of stone. Similar to tangerine tango group of color, spessartite garnet also has red orange hue that displays an array of color from orange yellow, bright orange, burnt orange, vibrant red orange, deep orange red, brown yellow, to red brown. Vibrant orange, burnt red orange, or red orange color is called mandarin garnet in the gem industry.

Pure orange hue speesartite garnet or mandarin garnet in gem trade name

In term of brilliance, spessartite garnet has the highest refractive index of the three stones. Spessartite garnet at 7.25 on the Mohs scale is also among the hardest stone suitable for setting in jewelry. In term of value, spessartite garnet in not cheap however spessartite garnet with saturated color, fine clarity, and size over 3 carats is rare and worth to invest in a jewelry.

Tangerine tango is energetic, vigorous, courage, and elegant. Its color is the new trend in fashion. It is quite a challenge in the design world to use this color as combination or contrast with others however this color has been used in high fashion for years. When it comes to choose a gemstone to accessorize clothes in jewelry making; the choice is simple, spessartite garnet.

Spessartite garnet has positioned well in jewelry industry, collectors, high fashion designers, gemstone lovers, and jewelry lovers. Spessartite garnet represents outgoing, confident, sophisticated yet elegant person. People who buy spessartite garnet or mandarin garnet tend to have well educated, confident and savvy about money spending.