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).

Provence Rooster

View the different Provence Rooster pieces

1. With Red

Unexpectedly, this works quite well – the reds in the pattern do blend with the solid red

2. With Green

Works well – the green is the right hue and blends nicely

3. With Blue

Another unexpected combination that kind of works because there is some blue in the rooster’s tail, so it really does have a nice ‘Provence’ feel to it

4. With Yellow

The safe choice but always appropriate

Our verdict

In this pattern, all the combinations work, because of the colors in the rooster. Yellow is a safe choice but do not be afraid to pick another color if it works better with your color scheme. There are no clashes (like some of the Gallo patterns have for example) so all 4 work.