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Around the Color Wheel

This section essentially focuses on solving the below questions:

  • "What color pops against this background"
  • "What text color is readable on this?"
  • "How do i feed it one color and get some colors in return which look good together?"

wheel

gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t triadic
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t quadratic
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t analogous
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t split-complementary
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t complementary
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t contrast

Usage & Options​

➤ Type

The -t (or --type) flag specifies the color scheme type to generate. You have 4 available options:

  • triadic (default) - Three colors evenly spaced around the color wheel (120° apart)
  • quadratic - Four colors evenly spaced around the color wheel (90° apart)
  • analogous - Colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
  • split-complementary - SplitComplementary schemes created by using colors next to the complementary value of a given color
  • complementary - a complementary color is the color directly opposite another color on the color wheel
  • contrast - returns the color with the highest contrast to a given color, either black or white
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t triadic
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t quadratic
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t analogous
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t split-complementary
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t complementary
gowall color wheel "#FF5733" -t contrast

You can pass colors in any format that gowall understands (for example hex, rgb, hsl, lab) as shown in here.