His offbeat colors are bright and cheery, mingling, for example, purple, gold, white and shades of blue.

Body piercing is banned, as is hair dyed an offbeat color or spiked in some crazy coiffure.

The rest of the film is modern computer animation, which uses bright, offbeat colors to evoke the natural landscape of China.

The most daring consumers can opt for even more offbeat colors, like pink lemonade and buttercup yellow.

Yellow and mauve are offbeat colors for furs, quilted gray flannel mates well with chinchilla, and pale pink or blue are pleasant in shearling peacoats.

Although classics like pajamas, boxer shorts, tennis sweaters and shirts with French cuffs remain popular, women also buy more unusual items like linen shirts in offbeat colors.

The customer also has to appreciate Ms. Neuville's offbeat colors: for fall, green-tinged and yellow-tinged beiges, with salmon, heathery lavender and wine.

"Letters" followed, along with "Constructed Paintings": canvases also shaped like nonsense signs, painted in catchy, offbeat colors, the shapes not sharp-edged but quavery, after faint pencil drawings.

Mr. Scaasi wraps it in a yellow and green taffeta stole in a play of offbeat colors that is typically his own.

There are no special frizzy effects or offbeat colors.