Why do people create single colours without adding them to a palette? Every now and again I come across a lonely colour and I always feel a strange urge to give it some company. Poor thing was tied to a tree.... Okay, now I'm blabbing, but still... What's WRONG with those people? :)

Sometimes when I create a palette, I'm not satisfied with the finished product, so I may change one of the colors. That previous color then is left without a palette. I have been trying to go back and make palettes with them, but I don't always remember to. So, that's how I come to have lone colors without a palette.

Yup, that's how most of my colours are orphaned too, although once in awhile, I'll create a colour as a humble gift for someone . . . a colour that would mean something to the recipient.

some colours are majestic as a single too :3

yeah, but talking romantic, a single is just someone haven't found the right one yet ;)

Thanks for the nice answers. I find single colours to be uninteresting unless you give 'm some context by adding a second colour. Single colours just don't cut it for me. I need colour-interaction.

I have some colors that were orphaned after the palette monster ate their palette.

some single colours are created by making a pattern ...

I make sure that I choose a color, without knowing if someone's chosen it already, I go ahead and feel what it means to me, so if I am the one that has to decide what it is, that it won't be haphazardly named and shoved into a palette or pattern.