What do you think about the wave method of building color palette?

Ihor Sabo
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In life we often face the challenge of choosing the right colors. This happens when we need to choose clothes suitable for each other, shoes suitable for clothes, choose different wallpapers for the children’s room, makeup, choose colors for our site and much more. The process of selecting several colors that combine with each other is called the construction of color palette. In colouristics there are several methods for constructing a color palette (color gamma) based on the arrangement of colors relative to each other in the color circle. Harmonious combination of which is not justified from a physical point of view. The wave method of building color palette based on the relationship of color and acoustic waves, and also the concept of consonance (harmony) in music theory. Just as chords sound harmonious in music, colors in a picture look harmonious as well. For practical use we made website with color picker — https://wavepalette.com. Perfect consonances are taken as a basis: a pure fourth (a chord of notes Do and Sol), a pure fifth (a chord of notes Do and Fa). This picker allows you to match the most harmonious colors to the base color, which you can choose by setting wavelength, saturation and lightness. The corresponding article was published on the site arxiv.org — https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04752.

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Sumal Jamil
Very interesting tool you have there. Very useful for designers who might be stuck in choosing the right color for their palette