Analogous

Analogous Colour Palette Generator

Pick a base colour and get its neighbours on the wheel. The most reliably harmonious scheme there is, because nature uses it constantly.

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Why analogous schemes feel calm

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Neighbours on the wheel

An analogous scheme takes hues within roughly 30 to 60 degrees of the base. Because the colours share underlying pigment, they blend rather than compete, which is why the result reads as calm almost regardless of which base you choose.

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It is what nature does

Sunsets, foliage, ocean depth gradients — these are analogous ranges. That familiarity is why the scheme feels settled to viewers who have never thought about colour theory, and why it is the safest option when you are not confident.

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The trade-off is emphasis

Everything harmonising means nothing stands out. An analogous palette gives you no natural accent, so a call to action can disappear into the page. Many designers use an analogous base plus one complementary accent for exactly this reason.

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Vary lightness, not just hue

Because the hues are close, hue alone will not separate elements. Lean on lightness and saturation differences instead. A palette that looks distinct as swatches can turn into mush once it is applied at scale.

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How it is calculated

The base is converted to HSL and the hue is rotated in both directions by a fixed step, with lightness varied to keep the set usable. HSL is used because rotating hue in RGB produces mathematically valid but visually erratic results.

How to analogous colour palette generator

1

Pick your base colour

Set the picker to your starting colour. Nothing to upload.

2

Read the palette

Neighbouring hues appear immediately with their hex codes.

3

Copy what you need

Click a swatch to copy one hex, or copy the whole set.

Analogous Colour Palette Generator — in the editor

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Where analogous palettes fit

Calm interfaces

Build a UI palette where nothing shouts and everything belongs together.

Illustration

Pick a coherent range for a scene without colours fighting.

Slide themes

Set a restrained deck palette that stays readable across many slides.

Warm brand systems

Explore a range around a single brand hue rather than jumping across the wheel.

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What people use it for

The jobs the editor was built around — and what it does differently on each one.

Colourways you can revisit

Every edit is a layer, not a bake. When the brand shifts, reopen the file and change the colour rather than rebuilding the variant from the original.

Cutouts with awkward edges

AI background removal that keeps hair, foliage and soft shadows instead of stamping a hard outline around them. The output is a transparent PNG, ready to place.

No export, edit, re-import loop

The Framer plugin runs on the canvas you are already working in, so a recolour or a cutout does not mean a round trip through a second application.

Ten options in the time one used to take

Recolour once and step through the alternatives, so a client review can look at the whole range instead of the one version there was time to make.

Brand colours matched exactly

Pick a colour straight off an existing asset and get the hex, rather than eyeballing it against a screenshot and hoping it is close enough.

Free to preview, priced per export

Previewing is unlimited and costs nothing. A credit is spent only when you download a full-resolution file, so exploring an idea is never the expensive part.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Pick a base colour and copy the hex codes.

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