Color Palette Generator

This tool treats your base color as a point on the HSL color wheel and rotates its hue to find related colors. It first converts your hex input to HSL (hue 0-360 degrees, saturation and lightness as percentages), then offsets the hue by fixed angles for each scheme: complementary is +180 degrees, analogous is plus or minus 30 degrees, triadic is +120 and +240, split-complement is +150 and +210, and tetradic is +90, +180, and +270. The monochromatic scheme is the exception: it keeps the hue and saturation fixed and instead steps lightness up and down, clamping the result between 15% and 90% so the lightest and darkest swatches never collapse into pure black or white. Saturation is carried over unchanged from your base, so a muted base produces a muted palette. Because the picker uses the native HTML color input, every value is an sRGB hex code (no alpha, no wide-gamut P3 or LAB). These angle-based relationships come from traditional color-wheel theory and are a strong starting point, but they are a mathematical suggestion, not a guarantee of accessible contrast or perceptual evenness.