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Color Palette Generator

Color Palette Generator expands one base HEX colour into eleven swatches by rotating its hue and changing its lightness.

Harmony

Base#3366cc
Complementary#cc9933
Analogous +30°#4d33cc
Analogous -30°#33b3cc
Triadic +120°#cc3366
Triadic -120°#66cc33

Shades

L20#142952
L35#24478f
L50#3366cc
L65#7094db
L80#adc2eb

How to use it

  1. Enter a base color as a HEX code
  2. Review the generated harmony (complementary, analogous, triadic) and shades
  3. Copy any color to your clipboard with one click

The harmony row is the base, its complement (hue +180°), two analogous hues (±30°) and two triadic hues (±120°). The shades row takes the base hue and saturation and sets lightness to five fixed values — 20, 35, 50, 65 and 80 — so they are absolute lightness steps, not tints or shades relative to the base. Saturation is never changed. The output is HEX codes to copy; there is no accessibility or contrast check on any pair, so verify text and background combinations separately with the WCAG Contrast Checker. An invalid base HEX simply produces no palette.

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