Generate a palette of tints, shades, and a complement.
Free to use, no sign-up required. Color Palette is one of 198 tools built into Xenition, alongside a chat that can use them for you.
Builds a colour palette in one of three ways: tints and shades of one colour, the main colours of a photo, or a hand-picked set. Use it to start a brand, slide or website colour scheme.
From color keeps your colour’s hue and saturation and sets lightness to 88, 74, 60, 46, 32 and 20%, then adds the complement: the hue turned 180° at 50% lightness. From image shrinks the picture to 64 × 64 pixels on your device, groups pixels into coarse colour buckets, averages each, and keeps the 7 most common that differ from each other by at least 60 in summed RGB distance.
#1B3A86 is hsl(223, 66%, 32%). From color gives #CCD8F5, #91AAE8, #567CDC, #2854C3, #1C3A87 and #112455, plus the complement #D4A42B.
It is the hue on the opposite side of the colour wheel, 180° away. Pairing a colour with its complement gives the strongest contrast, which suits buttons and highlights.
A tint is the colour made lighter, toward white; a shade is made darker, toward black. The first three swatches here are tints and the last three are shades.
You do not have to open Color Palette to use it. Ask Xenition in plain language and it runs the right tool, then carries the answer into whatever you are working on — a document, a spreadsheet, a deck.