Custom swatch
Complement colour
The exact opposite of your base colour, useful for delivering contrast but needs to be used with care. Never set copy in your complement colour against a background of your base colour, or vice-versa.
Analogous colours
Two colours, one either side of your base colour on a colour wheel. Analogous colours are often found in nature and pleasing to the eye, making them a great choice for most projects.
Split-complementary colours
Similar to the analogous colour scheme but using two colours, one either side of the complement colour. Like an analogous colour scheme it's hard to go wrong with this one.
Triadic colours
In this scheme colours are distributed evenly around the colour wheel, typically creating a very vibrant pallette. Use the two spin colours with care, in small doses.
Tetradic colours 1
A tetradic, or rectangular colour scheme inludes four colours arranged into two complementary pairs, with one pair offset by two stops of the colour wheel giving two possible directions of 'spin'.
Spin 1
Spin 2
Quadratic colours
A square colour scheme inludes four colours arranged into two complementary pairs spaced evenly around the colour wheel.