Making the colours

Generate makes every colour of the theme from two you choose, so they belong together: the links, the creatures, the speech and the channels all from one seed, each readable on the ground.

• Seed: a colour whose hue the theme is built round. Its lightness and strength set how bright every colour is. Click the swatch to choose one.

• Seeds from: the vivid colours of the theme you started from, offered as seeds. A click makes one the seed.

• Background: what every colour must read against. A light one makes a light theme.

• Scheme: how the colours spread round the colour wheel from the seed:

  Scheme
  monochrome	one hue, varied lightness and strength
  analogous	neighbours: calm, low contrast
  complementary	opposites: a strong pairing
  split	softer than complementary
  triadic	even thirds: vivid, balanced
  tetradic	two complementary pairs
  golden	the golden angle: the most separation
  compound	an analogous pair, and its opposite

• Spread: how far the scheme’s colours sit from the seed’s: 0.7 close, 1.4 far.

• Contrast: how readable every colour must be on the background: 3 is low, 4.5 the usual floor, 7 high.

• Separation: how different two colours of one group must be, so two channels, or health and stamina, never look alike: 0.04 low, 0.09 medium, 0.15 high.

• Room plate: the room name’s contrast on the plate under it: 2.5 subtle, 7 hard.

Some colours mean something by their hue, and keep it whatever the seed: health is red, mana blue, a warning amber, a creature’s spell coming orange. The generator moves only their lightness, to suit the background.

Over Despana the dials do nothing

Despana pins every colour as it is, and a theme laid over Despana takes its pins: the dials change nothing there. To make a theme from a seed, set over to nothing, or Start from Light, which is generated. Every colour you have not pinned is then made by the generator.