Proposal for a tool for decoding color charts in fashion collections

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2236-2207.2025.v16.n1.51370

Keywords:

Fashion Design, Visual encoding, Color chart, Fashion semiotic

Abstract

This paper explores the application of semiotics in fashion design, focusing on the denoding of visual messages through color. The main objective is to present a methodology that integrates semiotic principles with design practices, emphasizing the creation of strategic color palettes to communicate specific messages and create cohesive brand identities. The research combines a theoretical approach with the practical application of technological tools, such as design software and inspiration boards, to assist in the selection and combination of colors. The proposed methodology includes the analysis of the cultural and psychological meanings of colors and the creation of palettes that reflect the brand's identity and values. The results demonstrate that adopting a structured approach to color selection not only improves visual communication, but also optimizes the creative process and the quality of the collection's outcome. This study contributes to the formation of more conscious and capable designers, highlighting the importance of a systematic approach in the creation of fashion products.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Ítalo José de Medeiros Dantas, Universidade Feevale

PhD student in Cultural Processes and Expressions at Feevale University, where he is a PROSUC/CAPES scholarship holder. Master in Design from UFCG, Specialist in Communication, Semiotics and Visual Languages ​​from UBC and Fashion Designer from IFRN. He was a substitute professor in the area of ​​management processes and quality control in the clothing industry at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande - Caicó Campus.

Camila Assis Peres Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Professor of the Design Course at UFRJ and collaborator in the Postgraduate Program in Design at UFCG. Researcher in post-doctoral internship at the Institute of Industrial Property. Coordinator of the Industrial Design and Project Experiences Laboratory (DIEP Lab), linked to UFRJ. Member of the ProCor Association of Brazil based in São Paulo and member of the Interaction Design Foundation, based in Denmark. Since 2005, she has worked in the segment of packaging design for cosmetics, perfumes and personal hygiene, combining practical experience in companies in the sector with academic experience. Her last professional job was as packaging project coordinator for the international platform of the company Ceras Johnson through the agency Packaging Brands/RJ. Today she dedicates herself to higher education and academic research and extension. Color Science, Visual Design, Packaging and Sustainability, Innovation and Intellectual Property, Hybrid Languages, Universal Design and Usability are her main areas of interest.

Nathalie Barros da Mota Silveira, Federal University of Campina Grande

Industrial Designer from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), master's and doctorate in Design from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). She is currently a professor in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Design at the Federal University of Campina Grande. Leader of the research group Laboratory of Morphology of Objects and Processes of Significance, she develops research on aspects related to the significance of design products based on the various levels of interaction between users and artifacts.

Glauber Soares Júnior, Feevale University

PhD student in Cultural Processes and Expressions (Feevale); Master in Home Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa (PPGED/UFV); Graduated in Fashion Design (IF Sudeste MG - Muriaé Campus). Interested in the areas of: Fashion Design; Textiles; Textile Crafts; Material Culture and Gender. Specially develops research related to regional and local cultures.

Débora Pires Teixeira, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

Graduated in Home Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa - UFV (2001-2005), Specialist in Strategic Management and Quality from the Cândido Mendes University - UCAM (2009), Master (2007-2009) and Doctor (2017-2019) in Home Economics from UFV. Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of - UFRRJ (2012 - present), with a focus on History of Fashion and Clothing, Clothing Production Process, Clothing Industry, Textile Crafts and Old Age and Media. She is a member of the research groups Social Studies in Hospitality and Leisure and Gender (UFRRJ), Work and Consumption (UFV) and Research Center in Clothing and Fashion - NUPEVEM (interinstitutional), responsible for organizing the Fashion, Management and Design Seminar (SEMGED).

References

ARES, G.; PIQUERAS-FISZMAN, B.; VARELA, P.; MARCO, R. M.; LÓPEZ, A. M.; FISZMAN, S. Food labels: do consumers perceive what semiotics want to convey?. Food Quality and Preference, Amsterdam, v. 22, n. 7, p. 689-698, Oct. 2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.05.006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.05.006

BAXTER, M. Projeto de produto: guia prático para o desenvolvimento de novos produtos. 3. ed. São Paulo: Blücher, 2011.

CARDOSO, C. E. Processos de significação no design: proposta de intervenção para disciplinas de semiótica em cursos de graduação em design no Brasil. 2017. 469 p. Tese (Doutorado em Design) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2017. DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/165136.

DANTAS, Í. J. de M.; SILVEIRA, N. B. da M. Da síntese imagética à configuração da coleção de vestuário: o processo de codificação de mensagens visuais. Educação Gráfica, São Paulo, v. 24, n. 3, p. 76-93, dez. 2020.

DONDIS, D. A. Sintaxe da linguagem visual. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1991.

EMERENCIANO, J. W. Modelo para observação de linguagem visual em produtos de vestuário com valor de moda (PVVM). 2011. 160 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Design) - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2011. DOI: https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/2926.

FERRARA, L. D'A. Leituras sem palavras. São Paulo: Ática, 2006. (Série Princípios).

GOMES FILHO, J. Design do objeto: bases conceituais. São Paulo: Escrituras, 2006.

GOMES FILHO, J. Gestalt do objeto: sistema de leitura visual da forma. São Paulo: Escrituras, 2013.

HELLER, E. A psicologia das cores: como as cores afetam a emoção e a razão. São Paulo: Gustavo Gilli, 2013.

JONES, S. J. Fashion design: manual do estilista. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2005.

LÖBACH, B. Design industrial: base para configuração dos produtos industriais. São Paulo: Blucher, 2001.

MARTINS, L. R. Projeto em moda: o material e o imaterial no campo acadêmico. 2018. 311 p. Tese (Doutorado em Design e Arquitetura) - Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2018. Disponível em: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-26102018-173931/.

MARTINS, L. R.; MARTINS, S. R. M. O conceito pioneiro de estilismo na faculdade Santa Marcelina. dObra [s], São Paulo, v. 8, n. 18, p. 113-122, dez. 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26563/dobras.v8i18.108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26563/dobras.v8i18.108

MARTINS, L. R.; MARTINS, S. R. M.; BRAGA, M. da C. Diálogo entre design, arte e moda e o nascimento dos ideais de projeto e estilismo no Brasil por meio das iniciativas do MASP e Rhodia. Revista de Ensino em Artes, Moda e Design, Florianópolis, v. 1, n. 1, p. 122-148, out. 2017. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/Ensinarmode/article/view/10123. Acesso em: DOI: https://doi.org/10.5965/25944630112017122

MONTEIRO, G. C. P.; SILVA, C. A. P. The selection of colors for fashion collections in relation to color theory: a case study from the analysis of Brazilian ready-to-wear. Color Culture and Science, Milão, v. 13, n. 1, p. 24-31, abr. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23738/CCSJ.130103.

MORRIS, C. W. Fundamentos da teoria dos signos. Tradução de António Fidalgo. Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior, 1938.

NIEMEYER, L. Elementos da semiótica aplicados ao design. Rio de Janeiro: 2AB, 2003.

PEIRCE, C. S. Semiótica. 3. ed. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2003.

PENN, G. Análise Semiótica de imagens paradas. In: BAUER, Martin W.; GASKELL, George. Pesquisa qualitativa com texto, imagem e som: um manual prático. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002. p. 319-342.

PIQUERAS-FISZMAN, B.; ARES, G.; VARELA, P. Semiotics and perception: do labels convey the same messages to older and younger consumers?. Journal of Sensory Studies, Hoboken, v. 26, n. 3, p. 197-208, May 2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-459X.2011.00336.x. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-459X.2011.00336.x

ROSA JÚNIOR, J. D. A cor e a moda: perspectivas sobre a prática do design no mercado global. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación, Buenos Aires, n. 219, p. 287-301, 2024. Disponível em: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=9631017.

ROSA JÚNIOR, J. D. Cartelas de cores: uma proposta metodológica. ModaPalavra, Florianópolis, v. 13, n. 28, p. 74-98, abr./jun. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5965/1982615x13272020074. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5965/1982615x13272020074

SANCHES, M. C. de F. O projeto do intangível na formação de designers de moda: repensando as estratégias metodológicas para a sintaxe da forma na prática projetual. 2016. 268 f. Tese (Doutorado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo) - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2016. Disponível em: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-16022017-094603/publico/mariaceleste.pdf.

SANTAELLA, L. Semiótica aplicada. 2. ed. São Paulo: Cengage, 2018.

SILVA, C. A. P. O estudo da cor aplicado à moda: treinar, inspirar, integrar, aplicar e desafiar. Actas de Diseño, Buenos Aires, v. 17, n. 39, p. 241-267, fev. 2022. Disponível em: https://dspace.palermo.edu/ojs/index.php/actas/article/view/5672. Acesso em:

SILVEIRA, N. B. da M. Corpos e faces por todas as partes: um estudo dos artefatos antropomórficos no design contemporâneo brasileiro. 2015. 195 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Artes e Comunicação) - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2015. Disponível em: https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/16883. Acesso em:

SILVEIRA, N. B. da M. Morfologia do objeto: uma abordagem da gramática visual/forma aplicada ao design de artefatos materiais tridimensionais. 2018. 171 f. Tese (Doutorado em Artes e Comunicação) - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2018. Disponível em: https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/32192. Acesso em:

SILVEIRA, N. B. da M.; CAVALCANTE, V. P. Reflexões sobre a linguagem visual no processo de configuração dos artefatos. DAT Journal, São Paulo, v. 6, n. 3, p. 87-104, out. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29147/dat.v6i3.439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29147/dat.v6i3.439

TREPTOW, D. E. Inventando moda: planejamento de coleção. 5. ed. São Paulo: Doris Treptow, 2013.

Published

2025-06-02

How to Cite

DANTAS, Ítalo José de Medeiros; SILVA, Camila Assis Peres; SILVEIRA, Nathalie Barros da Mota; SOARES JÚNIOR, Glauber; TEIXEIRA, Débora Pires. Proposal for a tool for decoding color charts in fashion collections. Projetica, Londrina, v. 16, n. 1, p. 1–29, 2025. DOI: 10.5433/2236-2207.2025.v16.n1.51370. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/projetica/article/view/51370. Acesso em: 7 feb. 2026.

Issue

Section

Design de Moda