When Choosing Color Schemes for Layouts, Keep Accessibility in Mind

Choosing a properly flowing color scheme is important not just for making one's website visually pleasant for audiences to interact with but also for the brand identity of the company that the site represents. It is easy for all kinds of color pairings to visually clash on account of awkward mismatches and overly bold component colors, and these visually grating or otherwise incongruous choices for colors intended to complement each other are usually self-evident to designers and audiences alike. Furthermore, the prevalence of visual impairments like color blindness makes choosing the right color scheme a potential matter of avoiding legal trouble. As a result, there are many online utilities that offer specialized color-picking functions free of charge.

The "color wheel" tool offered at baseline.is attempts to generate for users a set of colors that would theoretically complement the color they choose to be the base color for their web page's color scheme. It is presented as a ring-shaped color picker that dynamically adjusts a set of example colors that correspond to the base color chosen. Then, the user may drag a second cursor within a square-shaped shade picker inside the ring that lets the user dictate how bold, faded, bright, or darkened the base color and all of its divergent colors should be within the chosen scheme. Once the user lands upon a satisfactory color scheme, the hex codes underneath each example color can be freely copied; alternatively, the "Generate Code" button lets the user copy CSS text that can plug the chosen colors into their website.

This color picker's distinguishing feature is a drop-down menu that lets the user select the kind of color scheme that should be based around their initial color choice. Many designers who would rather not have a set of very similar colors generated by the "Analogous" color scheme choice in this menu would do well to pick the "Complementary" choice to avoid colors that appear to be in direct opposition to each other. "Triadic" and "Tetradic" schemes, on the other hand, explicitly present colors that are as distinct from the base color as possible. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/webdesign/comments/q6c6dg/websitethatletsmeinputcolorsandsee_what/.