The Victorian-era homes of San Francisco are a colorful delight, and that’s due to the influence of one man known as Dr. Color. Bob Buckter is an an architectural colorist who specializes in historic homes. It’s a career he invented for himself when his eye for color gained him a reputation. He’s selected colors for around 15,000 exteriors in San Francisco alone, both residential and commercial -and that doesn’t count the buildings that copied his ideas.
Bob Buckter is a native San Franciscan. He started out as a house painter in 1970, but quickly realized that he had an unusual knack for color design, so he began consulting on the side. “That was a difficult uphill task because, why should people pay two, three hundred dollars for somebody to pick colors? But I was able to convince people—some people—to do that." He thought, "I like this. I want to try to be the best at it, if I can. Or at least very good."
Read about Buckter’s career, how he determines what colors to use, and how he uses those colors, at Hoodline. -via Metafilter
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