First thing to understand is Overtone is a color bias toward one side or another clockwise or counterclockwise on a color wheel.
Gardenia belongs to the yellow hue family. Its color notation is 1.84 Y. If you look at the color wheel I attached below, you can see at 1.84 Y it's on the cusp of the yellow-red and yellow hue families. At 1.84 Y, it's "over" closer to yellow-red which means if you sense any overtones, it's going to be yellow-red (orange/peach).
Vapor's hue family notation is 3.38 Y, which is yellow hue family. 5 is mid hue family, so I wouldn't anticipate any overtones.
Here are all the notations for the Affinity collection in a sortable table format.
If you cut apart the Affinity deck and put it in order according to each color's hue family notation, it will totally help you physically see and understand overtones. You'll never look at color the same way and you'll understand why, globally, the majority of paint manufacturers use a hue/value/chroma color system. Some do publish notations, some do not.
I show you how to put the Affinity deck in proper hue family order in this blog post.
Every color belongs to a hue family. Colors we casually label as white, gray, black, beige - all of them belong to a hue family. There's nothing hidden or under anything. It's actually very simple, accurate and direct.
I'm not just disagreeing with enmc when I say this because as many of you know, I've preached for the longest time here on the forum that there's nothing about a paint color formula that's useful, meaningful or helpful to know.
It doesn't matter what colorants go in the can nor does the base matter. When it comes to colorants there is substance uncertainty which means some colorants are stronger than others and you don't know what part of what colorant will end up dominating (being the primary hue parent) until you mix the color, let it dry and either eyeball it or measure it with a device.
Trying to determine color characteristics using paint bases and color formulas is like throwing darts at a dart board in the dark. Odds are you're going to miss the target.
If you work in a paint store mixing color day in and day out, you might get to a point where you can make predictions based on the colorants and bases you use every day. But we don't work in a paint store mixing color. So, the only thing that matters to you and me is what the color *is* when it’s dry. Because that's all we non-paint-store-employees can control and manage.
Most importantly the color has to be measured with an instrument – that’s where all the numbers and color notations come from – and that can only happen when it’s dry.
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