Module palette::color_theory

Traits related to traditional color theory.

Traditional color theory is sometimes used as a guide when selecting colors for artistic purposes. While it’s not the same as modern color science, and much more subjective, it may still be a helpful set of principles.

This module is primarily based on the 12 color wheel, meaning that they use colors that are separated by 30° around the hue circle. There are however some concepts, such as Complementary colors, that are generally independent from the 12 color wheel concept.

Most of the traits in this module require the color space to have a hue component. You will often see people use Hsv or Hsl when demonstrating some of these techniques, but Palette lets you use any hue based color space. Some traits are also implemented for other color spaces, when it’s possible to avoid converting them to their hue based counterparts.

Traits

• Analogous
  Represents the analogous color scheme on a 12 color wheel.
• Complementary
  Represents the complementary color scheme.
• SplitComplementary
  Represents the split complementary color scheme.
• Tetradic
  Represents the tetradic, or square, color scheme.
• Triadic
  Represents the triadic color scheme.