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Help with choosing complementary colours


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I'm new to the pratical side of design - having previously worked in positions where I've paid people for graphic design, I now want to be able to do it myself, to a degree.

 

I remember seeing designers use the colour wheel (I think) on Photoshop to find colours which complement the colours in a logo and I'm wondering if Affinity Designer has a similar tool. For example, I have a two colour logo. Can I input the colour refs for these into Designer and have it suggest a palette which will work nicely with them?

 

Thank you in advance.

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You could make up a custom Palette and use Chords.

 

Use the hamburger menu on the right of the swatches panel to create a new palette with just your two colours

Click on the little artists palette icon in the middle to move the colour to a swatch.

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Right click on either swatch and Add Chord to Swatch.

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You can choose from a bewildering display of choices to make up your new palette.

 

You can also double click on a colour well to get a larger display and set it to an HSL wheel

 

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Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.

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See this video

 

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