Paint Chip Fruit Tarts

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March  9, 2012

Anyone who's worked in the design world is familiar with Pantone color chips -- they're like tiny paint chips for making books, pamphlets, posters, and more. But we've never seen them used like this! French blogger Emily Griottes created tiny tarts for each color (you can see more here but the website is in French).

Pantone 1797 C becomes a tart with raspberries and currants, Pantone 715 C becomes lemon curd (you might try this buttery one), and she even goes savory on Pantone 7492 C with cucumbers!

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It's an innovative take on the same-old fruit tart, and perfect for a friend who's a designer. What's your favorite color/flavor combo?

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amysarah March 10, 2012
Such a fun idea, and really strikes a note with me. I work with color a lot - sometimes Pantone (for graphic stuff,) but more often paint. I'm often teased about using food to describe color, e.g., 'too pea soup, it needs to be more artichoke'; or 'that looks like a raw mushroom - I was thinking sauteed.' Just this week I told a client that a paprika fabric might work better than the pomegranate swatch we were considering.

Paints often have such crazy names (try naming 300 shades of blue!), but I've always thought there should be a campaign built totally around 'food' colors, using beautiful photos (like those tarts) for marketing. Are you listening, Ben Moore?
 
mrslarkin March 9, 2012
cute! and inspiring. That green is gorgeous. Talk about finding inspiration, have you seen this book? I love it. http://leitesculinaria.com/77653/writings-pastry-paris.html