Web widget that generates range of shades?

July 27, 2004 2:14 PM

Last week I stumbled upon a web widget that would generate a range of lighter and darker shades of an RGB color you input. Now I can't find it.
posted by timeistight to Computers & Internet (11 answers total)

Color scheme apart from generating lighter and darker shades, creates coordinated palettes.

See this AskMe thread for more color pickers/schemers.
posted by mnology at 2:29 PM on July 27, 2004

Oh blah, you said RGB...well the schemer is cool anyway.
posted by mnology at 2:30 PM on July 27, 2004

Color Schemer? (diff from mnology's link)
posted by dobbs at 2:36 PM on July 27, 2004

Response by poster: Thanks, but this one gave five (I think) increasingly darker and five increasing lighter shades of the one color. It wasn't complements, just shades.
posted by timeistight at 2:45 PM on July 27, 2004

I know of ColorMatch Remix and EasyRGB.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:46 PM on July 27, 2004

Or this?
posted by crunchland at 3:03 PM on July 27, 2004

mnology's got it.
posted by adamrice at 3:27 PM on July 27, 2004

Maybe SLUGS (Simple Little Utility for Generating Schemes) is what you were looking for? Unfortunately, the site I got it from seems to have vanished. It can provide you with a range of five colours either side of the one you select and also ha a neat "screen picker" allowing you to pick a colour from your screen.
posted by dg at 3:28 PM on July 27, 2004

Best answer: How about this?

Color palette creator
posted by fletchmuy at 3:34 PM on July 27, 2004

Response by poster: That's it! Thanks a million, fletchmuy.

And thanks everyone for those suggestions. Lots of toys to try out.
posted by timeistight at 3:45 PM on July 27, 2004

God, I love this place. I was happily bumbling along with SLUGS ... now I have bunches of other nifty choices I never knew about.

If no one's said it for awhile -- thanx Matt!

ObTopic: ... here's my copy of SLUGS, the program dg mentioned. It has inexplicably disappeared. I think it might have been incorporated into a full-blown Web IDE, maybe.
posted by RavinDave at 5:09 PM on July 27, 2004