Building your color palette
&gt; Ever used one of those fancy color palette generators? You know, the ones where you pick a starting color, tweak some options that probably include some musical jargon like &quot;triad&quot; or &quot;major fourth&quot;, and are then bestowed the five perfect color swatches you should use to build your website?<p>&gt; This calculated and scientific approach to picking the perfect color scheme is extremely seductive, but not very useful.<p>Just recently I wondered if there is any scientific basis behind these approaches.
I skimmed all research papers that I could find but not a single one of them provided serious data based support. All justification for these methods I found were historical, i. e. artists used color wheels and different methods of color selection on the wheels for a long time.<p>My conclusion so far is: There is no science what so ever behind these color palette generators.<p>I only spent about a day on this research and I&#x27;m not an expert, so if anyone has some pointers to serious research in that direction I&#x27;d be happy to know.