turg's Journal: Colour Matcher

This is pretty cool. Give it a colour and it will select some nice matching colours (almost all the time). Anyone with more knowledge of colour theory want to explain how it works? It doesn't seem to be as simple as taking complementary or adjacent colours from the colour wheel.

colour family

[SolemnDragon]

OKe. tried black, to see what happens to it. Black is pretty easy to follow, visually speaking. Then white. It took my colour and appears to have retrieved colours from the same places on the colour wheel to get the results. For example, black yielded white, grey, bluish brown and reddish brown. primary red yielded primary blue, bright green (same brightness as the red) and various tones of orange and brown. White yielded grey, black, various tones of orange and brown, and pale blue. So it seems to take you

use is way out of my league

[sparky4]

but - had fun playing with the colors i chose for my living room.... and I am within the matching scope according to the shades and hues and colors that resulted from my primary color pick.

Another link...

[arb]

EasyRGB [easyrgb.com]

I did have some other links squirreled away with more info on colour matching and colour harmonies, some of which explained various methods for selecting harmonious colour schemes, but I cannot find them at the moment... EasyRGB does have some interesting info/tools though...

Excellent...

[heironymouscoward]

My graphist has a huge book filled with pre-generated matching color schemes. When she sees this she will go wild (at least if it gives her what she expects.)

a very long post

[subgeek]

it uses similar kinds of color harmony for every color you choose. i also notice that the labels for the shade/tint set and complimentary set are reversed (what says shade/tint is actually complimentary and vice versa). the triad set looks like it's not producing a triad, especially since it says it isn't including the original color, but then does include a close variant of it.

color brakes down into 3 parts, called hue, saturation, and brightness on a computer. they might also be refered to as hue, int

Another

[turg]

Jack William Bell's journal today contains a link to this one [defencemechanism.com].