Some handy notes, so I won’t get lost on the palette…

The Schemes:

• Monochromatic: Single base color and the any number of shades of that color.
• Achromatic: Without color.
• Analogous: Colors adjacent to one another on the color wheel.
• Complementary: Colors opposite to one another on the color wheel. They “complement” each other.
• Split complementary: The two colors adjacent to the base color’s complement (opposite).
• Triadic: Three colors that are equally spaced between each other on the color wheel
• Tetradic (double complementary): A Complementary scheme combined with another Complementary scheme.

Generators & Tools

• WellStyled Generator
• Elvan Generator
• Adobe Kuler
• Jonathon Snook’s Contrast Checker

Articles & Blogs

• Color for Coders
• Colormatch Redux
• The Color of Words