I.O.C. Southwest Palette by Ken Kamps
Indigenous Organic Color
Over the past twenty years we have worked hard to meet the challenge of customer satisfaction in color and have created thousands of custom colors; matching fabric, wood, stone, shingles, carpet, ECT… Like many quality paint stores color match is an important service to us. But we saw a need to go beyond color match. We have been discussing the idea of regional color palettes for the country with our supplier over the past few years… Our focus is the Southwest. We realize other parts of the country have different color value preferences. The research and expense for them was seen as prohibitive, so we have taken the initiative and the result is the I.O.C. Southwest Palette by Ken Kamps.
The Southwest has a mild climate where people enjoy the outdoors year round. The days are warm; the patio a cool morning or evening retreat. While being a leader in the “green” movement, we also have a history and image of rough
outdoor living. Our color preference reflects the desire to blend in with our environment.
To achieve this we drew our samples from things you see everyday. Rocks, trees, and ground cover, some might call weeds, but all these make up an indigenous color palette that is subtle, non invasive, organic. Colors were custom built and formulated in our store. Our samples are all hand made and are actual paint that has been sprayed and dried. Because of the labor intensity of the process we are not able to hand out fan decks of the color, like the printed type that is mass produced. However; we do sell 2 oz. sample jars for your trial purposes. Viewing color in your environment is the only way to be sure the desired effect is achieved.
While our focus was intentionally Southwest, people in the paint industry who have seen the palette have expressed that most of the colors were very attractive for their area as well. We realized the organic nature of this color gave it a much broader application then we first realized.
We are excited to have you experience these colors and are certain you will see how unique they are. One surprise is that you can hardly go wrong in your color selection with in the palette. But then it makes sense. Nature has a balanced, soft, elegant look, so can you.
