rainwilds Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 I often choose a colour from a palette then go and find its monochromatic or analogous colour variant. It would be great to have a built in tool to generate these variants automatically. For reference check out: https://color.adobe.com Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 25, 2017 Staff Share Posted October 25, 2017 Hi rainwilds, Welcome to Affinity Forums Go to the Colour panel, click the small menu icon on the top right then select Add Chord to Swatch. You may want to create a new Palette first to store them going to the Swatches panel clicking on the small menu icon on top and selecting Add Document Palette (or one of the other option if you find more appropriate). All colors created/generated through the Add Chord to Swatch command will appear in the palette you created. Peregrin 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainwilds Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 23 minutes ago, MEB said: Hi rainwilds, Welcome to Affinity Forums Go to the Colour panel, click the small menu icon on the top right then select Add Chord to Swatch. You may want to create a new Palette first to store them going to the Swatches panel clicking on the small menu icon on top and selecting Add Document Palette (or one of the other option if you find more appropriate). All colors created/generated through the Add Chord to Swatch command will appear in the palette you created. Get out! That's awesome! Really need monochromatic as an option though as that's the one I use most often. Unless it's under a different word? Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 19 minutes ago, rainwilds said: Really need monochromatic as an option though as that's the one I use most often. For any given hue there are thousands of combinations of saturation and lightness you could use, depending on the shade/tint and tone that you want. How would the program make those choices for you? Peregrin 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainwilds Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 20 minutes ago, Alfred said: For any given hue there are thousands of combinations of saturation and lightness you could use, depending on the shade/tint and tone that you want. How would the program make those choices for you? Because like analogous (which is in the software), monochromatic is a known standard variation of colour. Check out the following: https://color.adobe.com Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 3 hours ago, rainwilds said: monochromatic is a known standard variation of colour Engineers (including, but not limited to, software engineers) love standards. That's why there are so many of them! The Adobe Kuler values are hugely variable. Even if you choose a simple base colour such as pure RGB red, which in HSL terms is (0, 100, 50), the luminance values for their set of five tinting and shading variants don't show a logical progression. And then there's the question of having variable saturation (tone) values, not to mention the choice of how many different swatches to generate. In summary, there would need to be some extra controls that simply aren't needed for the current options. Peregrin 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainwilds Posted October 26, 2017 Author Share Posted October 26, 2017 7 hours ago, Alfred said: Engineers (including, but not limited to, software engineers) love standards. That's why there are so many of them! The Adobe Kuler values are hugely variable. Even if you choose a simple base colour such as pure RGB red, which in HSL terms is (0, 100, 50), the luminance values for their set of five tinting and shading variants don't show a logical progression. And then there's the question of having variable saturation (tone) values, not to mention the choice of how many different swatches to generate. In summary, there would need to be some extra controls that simply aren't needed for the current options. I think your over complicating it. I just need to replicate what Adobe does - or similar. Monochromatic is a common used standard. Look at the Adobe website I linked. Colour variations are just mathematical equations. Some base colour theory must already exist in the software because of the existing colour variation options. So don't see the drama of another. It's the one I use most often for web design and it is a definitive need I personally would benefit from. I'm sure others would also. Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I'm not entirely sure how the "monochromatic" thing works or how it's different from some of the other settings, but having more options for this feature sounds like a good thing. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Is Adobe's "Monochromatic" different from Affinity's "Tones"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainwilds Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 18 hours ago, Peregrin said: Is Adobe's "Monochromatic" different from Affinity's "Tones"? Just did some testing and looked at each colour Chord. None of them replicated Adobe's Monochromatic. Disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrin Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 3 hours ago, rainwilds said: Just did some testing and looked at each colour Chord. None of them replicated Adobe's Monochromatic. Disappointing. Then "Monochromatic" should definitely be added. rainwilds 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainwilds Posted October 29, 2017 Author Share Posted October 29, 2017 @Peregrin Agree! Please Serif add it! Peregrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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