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ColPal_01_Shades
Color Selector
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Kaleido Cube
Shades
A shade palette is created by adding black to a base color, resulting in a range of darker tones. Shades can add depth and sophistication to designs, allowing for a range of tones within the same color family.
Shades introduce visual depth and dimension to your design and transform flat layouts into dynamic, engaging interfaces. This depth helps to establish a visual hierarchy, which can effectively guide the user's attention to key areas and improve the overall navigability.
With shades you can differentiate UI elements and make interfaces more intuitive. Use shades to improve contrast and readability, and to enhance usability and accessibility.
Shade palettes have a profound emotional impact, as darker tones convey power and seriousness. This unique emotional resonance is crucial for brands aiming to evoke a sense of elegance and mystery.
A palette based on shades ensures consistency and harmony, as all the colors naturally complement each other.
Combine a shade palette with a tint palette (adding white to the same base color) to create a
monochromatic palette.
Such a monochromatic color scheme emphasizes simplicity and elegance, utilizing depth and texture to add
visual interest while maintaining color unity."
Tint
A tint color palette is created by adding white to a base color, lightening it to produce softer, pastel variations.
This process generates a range of lighter tones that retain the essence of the original color, providing a versatile palette for designs that require a subtle, airy, and harmonious look.
With their lighter and softer colors, this palette creates a friendly and inviting atmosphere for users. This can make interfaces appear more approachable, improving user engagement.
Lighter colors contribute to a cleaner, more organized look, aiding in user navigation and content comprehension (Visual Clarity and Organization).
High-contrast yet gentle backgrounds improve readability, crucial for accessibility and user comfort.
Emotional and Psychological Impact: Tints can evoke calmness, positivity, and openness, influencing users' mood and perception positively.
Blend
Mix a base color with a second color to create a blend color
palette.
This generates a unique set of
intermediary hues that bridge the two original colors.
This blending process can result in a harmonious and dynamic palette, offering a range of colors that can add complexity and depth to your design.
This palette is ideal for creating smooth transitions, adding visual interest, and uniting different elements of a design under a cohesive color scheme.
Choosing a second, blend color that complements or dynamically contrasts with the base color can significantly impact the aesthetic and functionality.
If the blend palette is empty the generate palette button utilizes a second blend color that is an analogous hue, achieved by shifting the base color's hue by 60 degrees, by default.
Here are some guidelines for selecting a second color with :
Complementary Colors: Using colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel creates a vibrant look with high contrast, ensuring that elements stand out.
Analogous Colors: Choosing colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. This results in a more harmonious and serene palette, perfect for creating a unified and cohesive design.
Monochromatic Scheme: Selecting a different shade or tint of the base color. This approach maintains color unity and is visually appealing, offering a subtle and sophisticated palette. It’s ideal for creating depth and interest within a single color family.
Triadic Scheme: Choosing colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. This scheme is very vibrant, even if you use pale or unsaturated versions of your hues.
Split-Complementary Scheme: Similar to the complementary scheme but with less tension. You choose one base color and use the two colors adjacent to its complementary color. This provides a high contrast look without the intensity of a direct complementary scheme.
Tetradic (Double Complementary) Scheme: Involves four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs. This scheme offers plenty of possibilities in blending and is best for creating rich and diverse color palettes.
RGB Blend Palette Mode
This blend palette is generated using the RGB color
system.
It
leverages the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color system, the fundamental color model for electronic displays.
This mode combines red, green, and blue light in various proportions to create a wide range of colors.
Ideal for digital designs, the RGB blend palette mode offers direct control over color as it will appear
on screens, ensuring vibrant and eye-catching color combinations suitable for any digital project.
Special Blend
While the Blend generator uses RGB as its color system you can choose between three different blend palette modes with the Special Blend generator to create a blend color scheme.
HSL Blend Palette Mode
Utilizes the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color system to blend colors, offering intuitive control
over color hue, saturation, and brightness. This mode allows for seamless transitions and adjustments,
ideal for creating vibrant and dynamic color palettes that resonate with emotional design cues.
LAB Blend Palette Mode
Employs the LAB color space, focusing on luminosity (L*), green-red spectrum (a*), and blue-yellow
spectrum (b*) for blending. This mode is designed for high precision and consistency across devices,
ensuring that the colors you choose are perceived as intended, regardless of the medium. It's perfect for
tasks requiring color accuracy and uniformity.
LCh Blend Palette Mode
Leverages the LCh (Luminance, Chroma, Hue) model for color blending, offering an advanced approach to
color selection by separating color pigmentation from its hue and lightness. This mode enables
sophisticated control over color harmony and balance, making it suitable for crafting complex and nuanced
color palettes with a focus on visual impact.
Analogous
Generates an analogous color palette by selecting colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.
This creates a harmonious and pleasing color scheme with a seamless transition between hues.
Analogous palettes are perfect for designs seeking a cohesive and serene visual impact, offering subtle variations that enrich the overall aesthetic without overwhelming the senses.
Use the distance slider to select the range of degrees on the color wheel around your base color, creating customizable analogous color palettes.
Adjusting to ±15° offers a closely related, more subtle and unified color scheme, ideal for neutral or minimalist designs. This creates a serene, cohesive look, evoking calmness and stability.
Expanding the range to ±30° provides a traditional analogous palette, rich in harmony yet visually dynamic. This introduces more vibrancy, enhancing visual interest and warmth, ideal for inviting and energetic spaces.
Setting the slider to ±60° allows for a broader and more vibrant palette, capturing a wider spectrum of related hues for bold and energetic designs. This maximizes contrast and diversity, stimulating excitement and creativity.
Customize the degree to fine-tune the emotional tone and visual impact of your palette.
Hue Shift
Explore the pixel art-inspired hue shifting palette!
In pixel art, artists often adjust a color's lightness/chroma and subtly shift its hue to add depth. Lighter hues shift up - darker hues shift down.
This technique ensures that shades and tints remain vivid and impactful.
Amplify the effect to create
stunning,
standalone color palettes perfect for vibrant designs.
Tetradic
Generate a tetradic color palette using either a square or rectangular configuration to bring vibrant diversity to your designs.
The square option creates a balanced palette with each color 90° apart, perfect for bold, evenly vibrant designs.
The rectangular option offers a richer contrast with colors 60° apart, ideal for highlighting dominant hues while keeping harmony.
Choose square for energetic, equally balanced color schemes, or rectangular for depth and a focused contrast.
Triadic
Select between a traditional triadic or a split complementary color palette to add vibrant diversity to your design.
The triadic palette, with colors 120° apart on the color wheel, creates a bold and balanced look with high contrast and harmony, ideal for dynamic and lively designs.
The split complementary option involves your base color plus two colors adjacent to its complement (approx. 150° and 210°) and offers a more nuanced harmony with less tension.
This configuration is perfect for designs seeking a vibrant yet more approachable aesthetic, blending the high contrast of complementary colors with the softer, more varied appeal of analogous schemes.
Use the triadic scheme for bold, energetic projects, and the split complementary for a subtler, yet still engaging, color interaction.
Complementary
Generate a complementary color palette to instantly find the perfect counterpart to your base color, with a 180° hue shift on the color wheel.
The high-contrast pairing is ideal for creating dynamic and eye-catching designs.
Use complementary colors to draw attention to key elements, enhance readability, and inject vibrancy into your project.
Perfect for calls to action, logos, and anywhere you want to make a strong visual statement
Saved Palettes
A Save Space For Your Colors
Generate palettes and use to start your palette collection