Being more of an analyst than a designer, I know very little about color theory. I rely heavily on templates when I make presentations or websites. But what if a template just won’t cut it? You see those templates that came with Office and Adobe are done by professional designers – that is why their color palettes work.
I looked for other ways to generate color palettes and I came to this really nice website that will let users generate color palettes easily. This web service is called Toucan and access it here: http://aviary.com. Once you see the homepage, click the button labeled “launch Toucan” to open a new window that contains an interactive page for making color palettes.
The page includes a standard color wheel with a slider control at the bottom for brightness. The circles inside the color wheel are spots that match the palette on the right side. You can click or drag the mouse cursor inside the color wheel to move the spot selections.
You can also change the type of wheel pattern selection from circular, invert, alternate, opposite and deviance – all designed to give you enough variations of palette generation to work with.
Sliders and textbox entries containing RGB, CMY, CMYK and HSL are also available so you can enter the exact numbers – if that suits your preference.
Clicking the send to palette button will save the chosen colors to the palette above.
To send the chosen colors to clipboard click the send to clipboard button.
The tool also has a preview for color deficiency. This way you know how your palettes will look like if viewed by folks with color deficiency.
Ben Carigtan shows you how it’s done.
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