Anyone who has tried to match colors when buying online knows how difficult it is. Colors vary on each computer, depending on the resolution, the quality of the display and often the quality of the photograph itself. Our eyes all perceive color differently too. This makes matching anything a challenge.

One of the issues that has come up in the past few months is how our solid color melamine dishes coordinate with the patterned ones. And what seemed at first like a no-brainer, is in fact a bit more challenging.

Colors that we thought would obviously go together, when put side by side, actually do not work.

In an effort to help our customers pick out the best possible combination, we have devised a buying guide that we will divide by pattern to keep things simple. We photographed each design with each solid, so you can see for yourself. And we will give our opinion and rank them according to our personal opinion (and since we have them here, we can tell honestly and without the biais of a monitor, what we feel works).

Dragone (Deruta Dragons)

View the different Dragone pieces

1. With Yellow

A good choice, nice and fresh

2. With blue

Not our favorite, but it does coordinate OK

3. With Green

Not really good. Green is the more difficult of the solid ones, and doesn’t work with a lot of patterns

4. With red

Pretty good – quite bright

The verdict:

Our favorite is the yellow, followed by the red. Blue can work. Green is not great.