Here are a few tips to help you choose the right colours for your lamp: The darker the colour, the dimmer the lighting. For good lighting, you should choose light or neutral colours: white, ivory, eggshell, linen, pearl grey, light yellow, yellow, light orange, light violet, salmon, light pink or silver. Be careful with certain bright colours like red, raspberry pink, anise green and flash green. They capture all the light! To offset this effect, you can combine these colours with a more neutral shade for more light in a double or triple hanging suspension. A lamp made up only of dark shades (plum, anthracite, graphite, black, dark violet, duck blue, chocolate) is more of a "light decoration", because the lighting is too dim.