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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
I used to have the Milky Way design and I was going to order the Marbled Indigo as Prestidigitweeze has, and stumbled on Colormatch Navy (in matte of course) and ended up ordering that instead. It looked like it would imitate as closely as possible the blue PRS-350s available in Europe, and I absolutely love it for that reason, it's very classy looking
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Good choice, Ripplinger, and nice job on the smooth application of the skin. Nice photograph as well.
I thought about that one, too. The reason I chose the Indigo was because the pattern was subtle enough to be ignored but pronounced enough to offset any difference in color. I also like the fact the indigo glows a bit.
I made a very conscious decision to avoid solid colors.
It's the brown-shoes-with-black-pants exception to that age-old fashion rule: The inevitable slight dissonances in color are minimized by careful distinctions in texture. That can also work with a black sports jacket and black dress pants cut from different fabrics.
(One could argue that a flat visual pattern is not really a texture, but I would counter that the point of these kinds of patterns is to create the
illusion of texture.)
I took a similar approach with my other PRS-350, only this time, I matched a black woodgrain pattern to the black lining inside the blue case. You can see the effect of the pattern here:
And the similarity of color here:
