Color Palette Generator

Pick a seed color and a scheme, and the palette below updates as you go — every generated color keeps the seed's saturation and lightness, only the hue rotates.

How it works

Your seed color is converted to HSL, then each scheme rotates the hue by a fixed set of offsets while holding saturation and lightness fixed, and converts each result back to hex. Only the hue changes — so every generated color is recognizably related to your seed, rather than an arbitrary color that merely happens to sit at the right angle on the color wheel.

  • Complementary — the seed plus its opposite hue (+180°), for maximum contrast between two colors.
  • Triadic — three hues evenly spaced 120° apart, a balanced high-contrast trio.
  • Analogous — neighboring hues (±30°), producing a harmonious, low-contrast look.
  • Split-complementary — the two hues next to the complement (+150° and +210°) instead of the complement itself, a softer alternative to a straight complementary pair.
  • Tetradic — four hues forming two complementary pairs (+90°, +180°, +270°).