Calculated Harmony · Colourdevelopment

Which colour tones fall between two of any given colours?

With this function you can calculate the colour development between two colour tones. You'll create harmonic gradients because of the same distance between each development step.

The picture shows the RAL CLASSIC system in the three dimensional CIELAB colour space and the connection between zinc yellow and azure blue.
Which colours are close to the connecting line?

Short instruction

1. Open „Colour harmony“ and select the fourth button of the harmony variants.
2. Add the starting colour to the colour development either by entering colour values or by selecting it from one of the contained colour systems.
3. Click on the little rectangle under the display of the starting colour. Now you can select the resulting colour of the colour development.
4. Choose the number of development steps (including starting and resulting colour) under the result rectangle.
   

Via the drop down menu above the result list you can now either calculate using „Ideal“ or „RAL...“ to receive...

• ideal specific inbetween steps or
• the RAL colours which lie in close proximity to these result as well as the Delta E deviation of the respective RAL colour to the calculated ideal colour.

 

Further functions

If you drag the mouse over the result field and press the Alt-key at the same time the number of steps varies. Dragging to the right increases (max. 20) and dragging to the left decreases them.
Double click on any colour in the result field (beams or list) inserts it as the new starting or ending colour of the colour development.
Using the ideal colour development you can change to Lab, HLC and RGB coordinates.

 

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