Color Scheme Explorer

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color-scheme-explorer
I wrote this page because although there are a lot of color pickers and suchlike out there, there was nothing that allowed you to generate a color scheme for an entire site that conformed to any of the classical ideals. This color scheme tool is one I feel the web lacks and I hope you will find it useful. At the end you can take away the color information used to generate the sample area.

There will be those of you who say 'what about the web safe palette?' and to those people I say 'nuts to the web safe pallette.' Why? Because the web safe pallette was designed to allow representation on a 256 color display which in the early days of the web was all that most users had. Nowadays even mobile phones surf in 16,000+ colors so the web-safe and browser-safe palettes (designed because early browsers were not that good with graphics) are well and truly defunct.

This page will guide you step-by-step through the process of producing a professional color scheme. Simply follow the instructions and at the end of it you will be presented with a sample, and the cut and pasteable list of colors used to produce it. If you do not like it then simply go back however many steps you want to and try again.


First click on the text box below and pick the main (base color) for your page, ie blue, green ,purple, red etc.

Then decide what type of color scheme you want(see below):
Monochrome
Analogous
Complementary
Split Complementary
Triadic
Double Complementary

Color Scheme Type Definitions

Monochromatic color schemes use variations in brightness on a single color.

Analogous color schemes use subtle variations in color from the base color. For example red toning to orangy red, blue toning to purples.

Complementary color schemes use the base color plus its complement. For example blue-orange red-turquoise.

Split Complementary color schemes use the base color plus its two colors either side of its complement. For example blue-dark yellow/dark orange.

Triadic color schemes use the base color plus two colors equi-spaced on the color wheel. For example turquouise-purple-orange.

Double complementary color schemes use two base colors plus their complements.


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