Contrast Palette Creator
Select a base color to generate its shade variations and its opposite colors.
Shade Settings
Define the percentage for the more intense and softer colors.
Your Palette
Base Color
More Intense
Softer
Opposite to Base
Opposite to Intense
Opposite to Softer
The Power of Contrast Palettes and Complementary Colors
Color contrast is crucial in modern design, ensuring that text and visual elements are both accessible and impactful. Here you can easily create a color palette. Our generator focuses on two types of palettes:
1. Complementary and Opposite Colors
Complementary colors are those located on opposite sides of the color wheel, such as red and cyan, or blue and yellow. They produce the greatest possible contrast and are ideal for:
- Calls to Action (CTAs): Highlighting buttons and links.
- Accessibility Design: Ensuring legibility (required by standards like WCAG).
- Visual Focus: Creating a clear separation between background and foreground.
- Room Painting: Creating distinction between different walls.
2. Contrast Tonal Variations
In addition to the opposite color, the generator provides softer (lighter) and more intense (darker) variations of your base color and its complementary color. This allows you to create visual hierarchy, using contrast not only for legibility but also for depth and elegance in any project.
Use the selectors above and start generating color palettes right now.