useful tools for colors

I’ve been working on putting together a new theme for my website. In the process, I decided that I wanted to avoid the edges of the color box (i.e. no pure white or black) while supporting a light mode and a dark mode.

That meant I needed a way to come up with complementary colors as well as the inverse.

While sites like coolors.co are great for coming up with a nice set of colors, they’re less helpful when you have a specific color and you’re looking for it’s inverse.

Pinetools.com, on the other hand, has a bunch of tools for exactly these types of purposes. The color tools include:

• Lighten Color
• Darken Color
• Change Color Saturation
• GreyScale/Desatureate A Color
• Invert A Color
• Random Color Generator
• Blend Color
• Gradient Generator
• Shift Hue of A Color
• Triad Color Scheme
• Tetrad Color Scheme
• Complementary Color
• Split Complementary Colors
• Analogous Color Scheme
• Monochormatic Colors Generator
• Square Color Scheme
• Image Color Picker
• Get Colors From Image

I haven’t tried them all, but the invert and complementary color tools worked like a charm!

Thanks to Sung M. Kim as I found pinetools when looking through his website’s source code