Thaitone

Thaitone is a color scheme designed to follow colors used in traditional Thai art. It was compiled by Pairoj Pittayamatee, and is the result of ten years study about the traditional color making and using in Thailand art history for his master's and doctoral degrees at Silpakorn University. The identity of Thai color is a hundred percent made by natural ingredients, plants and minerals that can be found in Thailand.[1] The shade is soft and not too vivid. The problem is the color will not be exactly the same color in each time of making because it is the handmade product. To make the use of Thaitone color scheme universal, Professor Pairoj set the aim of the study to research and compare Thai's color scheme with CMYK color model by using Pantone color system and collected them as a database for everyone especially for Thai designers who can adapt the Thaitone color to use in design world nowadays.[2] Now (Jan 2017), there are 156 colors identified in CMYK color standard.[3] Thaitone color has become one of Thailand's cultural identities by reflecting the beauty, belief and characteristics of Thailand.[4]

Primary colors in Thaitone

Same as universal primary color standard, Thaitone primary color consists of red, yellow and blue. The colors are called, Chard (red), Rong (yellow) and Kraam (blue).[5] However, the tone of the color is not the same as the standard.

Chard

Chard is vermillion.[4] It is considered as the most important color in Thai art as the red color represents the auspicious thing and heaven in Thai belief.[3][4]

Rong

Rong is gamboge tint.[4] The word rong is from Rong Thong tree (Gracinia Hanbury Hook) which is the tree that can be easily found along the seaside province of the Gulf of Thailand.[5]

Kraam

Kraam is indigo color from the color pigment of Indigo's stem and leaves.[4] Kraam could be considered as the most familiar Thaitone color for Thai people according to the color is very popular in traditional Thai's dyeing.[5]

Benjarong - Five primary colors in Thaitone

These five primary colors consist of the three of primary colors in Thaitone which are Chard, Rong, Kraam and other two colors are black and white.[4] Benjarong color was used popularly in traditional Thai's mural art and in Thai's traditional porcelain painting.

Ten groups of Thaitone

These ten groups of Thaitone colors consist of five primary colors (Benjarong) that are Chard, Rong, Kraam, black, white and other five colors which are created from the mixing between colors in Benjarong color groups that are orange, green, violet, brown and gold.[4]

Ingredients for making color in Thai's color making

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Ingredients Color
Adenanthera pavonina Red
Lac Red, purple-red
Sappan tree Red, orange
Red iron oxide Dark red
Cinnabar Chard
Red lead Light red
Saffron Yellow
Gracinia hanbury hook Rong
Turquoise Aqua
Turmeric Yellow
Green bronze Green
Malachite Vivid green
Indigo Kraam
Yellow soil Dark yellow
White lead Ivory
Lapis lazuli Gold, white, blue

Thaitone color nowadays

The use of Thaitone color is now supported by Thailand's Ministry of Culture to promote Thailand's identity.[4] From the study of Professor Pairoj, he can identify 156 colors. He gave the Thai name to each color and used Pantone color analysing program to find the CMYK code so that it can be used worldwide.[3] There are new colors being discovered continuously so Professor Pairoj is still working on the project to identify more CMYK codes. He has also done the copyright for the name "THAITONE" even though the percentage of color ratio, color name, graphic of Thaitone color are allowed to use freely to be the reference of color in design work as long as the users give credit to THAITONE Color System.

Colors
Thaitone
ColorNameCMYKCode
Keabbua c5 m30 y10 k0 T0060
Dangdokchaba c5 m90 y80 k0 T1170
Sangdadduad c10 m70 y70 k0 T1550
Khayan c30 m90 y70 k20 T1600
Daoroung c0 m30 y100 k0 T3220
Srok-jang c30 m5 y35 k0 T4272

References
  1. Pholdhampalit, Khetsirin (21 February 2016). "The true colours of Thailand". The Nation. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  2. Room. "THAITONE โทนสีไทย โดย ไพโรจน์ พิทยเมธี", บ้านและสวน, 14 Jan 2016. Retrieved on 27 January 2017.
  3. "ไทยโทน" เสน่ห์ของเฉดสีไทย 2017, television program, พิกัดข่าวเช้านี้ต้องรู้, NOW26, Bangkok, 27 January.
  4. ศูนย์บันดาลไทย กระทรวงวัฒนธรรม. (2015). “สีไทยโทน” เสน่ห์ไทยเพิ่มมูลค่าธุรกิจ [PDF file]. กรุงเทพฯ: กระทรวงวัฒนธรรม. Retrieved from http://www.bundanthai.com/uploads/news/document/20151102150902hM2W6DC.pdf
  5. กระเป๋าแฟชั่น. "THAITONE อัตลักษณ์ไทย สู่ Tropical Color", BLOG GALLERY Lifestyle, 25 July 2016. Retrieved on 27 January 2017.
  6. สีจากธรรมชาติ. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://fieldtrip.ipst.ac.th/intro_sub_content.php?content_id=28&content_folder_id=281
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