Hi Julio The ColorPalette uses the idea of a small colour palette with a primary, secondary and tertiary colour, along with the plain background and foreground colours. The idea is that the primary colour is the dominant colour, then the secondary colour is something that contrasts well with it, and the tertiary colour is another contrasting colour for accents. Each colour is given in four shades, from Dark, Mid, Light to Pale.
It's quite a common approach - communities like http://www.colourlovers.com/ have sprung up around the idea of sharing and improving colour palettes. The technique I use to come up with new colour schemes is a pretty basic: I'll pick the Mid colours randomly, and then estimate the Dark, Light and Pale variants by stepping down to #000 and up to #fff. For example, one might pick #F82 as the Mid colour, and then scale it down to #841 for the Dark variant, and scale it up to #FA4 and #FC8 for the Light and Pale variants. And then it's a matter of trial and error to get some combinations that you like. When I originally implemented the feature I was hoping to integrate a colour wheel like this one: http://colorschemedesigner.com/ These kinds of tools make it easy to select combinations of colours with reasonably harmonious relationships to one another. Best wishes Jeremy On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Julio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I hope everyone is doing well. I would like to direct this question > toward Jeremy Ruston, but by all means, if anyone else has a rational > answer please do step in. :) > > Jeremy, I was looking at the Tiddlywiki[1] website and saw your color > palette tiddler. I saw that you added a 'green' section for the chunky > download button I am pressuming. As I was looking at your color > palette I was pondering about the color ranges you picked for your > blues, greys, etc. > > My question is: is there any logic for picking the colors or are there > any rules as to how one picks the ranges for pales, lights, mids, and > darks? > > When you can have a look at my [[ColorPaletteView]] tiddler[2]. I > tried to have some uniformity, but am not sure if that is good or not. > > Any guidance on your part or any others from the group would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advanced, > > Julio > > [1] http://tiddlywiki.com/ > [2] http://jpen24mtc.tiddlyspot.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
