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Glossary Design & Media

Colour palette

A colour palette is a small set of colours chosen to work together in a design.

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In more detail

Classic schemes use the colour wheel: complementary (180° apart), analogous (within about 30°) and triadic (120° apart). A palette can be picked from a photo or generated randomly, then checked for text contrast.

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See also

  • Glossary HSL
    HSL describes colour as hue (position on the colour wheel in degrees), saturation (intensity) and lightness.
  • Glossary Colour contrast
    Colour contrast is the difference in luminance between text and its background; WCAG expresses it as a ratio from 1:1 to 21:1.
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