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Personal Color Palette Guide

This document provides instructions for creating a unique personal color palette based on one's own features like hair, eye, and skin color. It involves taking photos of these features, using a color matching extension to extract hex codes for the colors, and inputting them into a color wheel website to generate analogous, monochromatic, triadic, and complementary color combinations. The final palette should consider one's natural contrast levels and eliminate redundant colors to create a curated set suited to their features and complexion.

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Personal Color Palette Guide

This document provides instructions for creating a unique personal color palette based on one's own features like hair, eye, and skin color. It involves taking photos of these features, using a color matching extension to extract hex codes for the colors, and inputting them into a color wheel website to generate analogous, monochromatic, triadic, and complementary color combinations. The final palette should consider one's natural contrast levels and eliminate redundant colors to create a curated set suited to their features and complexion.

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  • Creating a Unique Personal Color Palette: This section provides a step-by-step guide to creating a personal color palette using software tools such as ColorZilla and Adobe Color CC, from installing extensions to generating custom colors.

create a uniquely personal color palette

With the color knowledge you learned in this class and some simple, free, technologies, you can create a
unique palette for yourself.

You will need:

• a smart phone,
• a color matching extension for Chrome or Firefox web browsers (ColorZilla),
• a word processor software (Microsoft Word)
• the free web app at Adobe Color CC

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Go to http://www.colorzilla.com/ and add the ColorZilla Extension to your Chrome or Firefox


web browser.
2. Take a few pictures of yourself in a natural light. Get a good picture of your face, your eye color,
and your hair. (The inner forearm is a good part of your body to photograph for accuracy of skin
tone. It is a part of the body that is not frequently exposed to the sun. It may not be a pretty picture,
but it will accurately reflect your skin tone.)
3. Place the pictures of your face, hair, skin and eyes inside a Word Document and save it as an .htm
file.
4. Open your browser and choose either File > Open or drag the .htm file on to a new tab in your
browser to open the .htm file.
5. Use the eyedropper from ColorZilla and choose the “Pick Color from Page” option.
6. As you move your mouse around the picture of your face, you can see the various colors it is picking
up at the top of your screen.

7. Once you have selected a color, it will generate a HEX number and RGB (Red, Green, Blue – color
recipe) code. Repeat this step for each of your hair, eyes, and skin tone.
8. ColorZilla will keep your color history if you want to sample different spots of your hair, skin tone,
or eye color.
9. Once you feel you have the HEX value of your hair, eyes, and skin tone, go to the Adobe Color
CC website https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
10. Enter in one of the values you have generated (in this example #d9a68b) in the first field at
Adobe Color CC and select Analogous. This will generate 4 analogous colors that go with your
selected tone.

11. Above, you can see the 4 colors Adobe gave me for pairing with d9a68b.
12. Repeat with this color for monochromatic, triadic, complementary, etc.
13. Next enter in one of the other two values you generated (if you did your eyes first, do either your
skin or your hair).
14. You should now have 24 colors for each of your Hair, Eyes, and Skin that are uniquely suited to
your natural colors.
15. The next step is to eliminate the numerous redundancies. There will be several shades that are so
close that you can easily discard the repeats. Next, there will be some colors, you simply don’t
like regardless of its possible compliment to your natural colors, eliminate those too.
16. The final step is to consider the contrast between your own features. As noted in the class, colors
in different parts of the color wheel are contrasting colors. The colors directly across from each
other are at maximum contrast. Your individual contrast is the difference between your most
tinted (lightest) features and your most shaded (darkest) features.
17. Persons with highly tinted, light, or fair hair, eyes, and skin are low in contrast and would benefit
from a color palette that also has less contrast and is more harmonious and analogous.
18. Persons with a high contrast (bright red hair and fair skin for example) or darker skin tones
benefit more from a higher contrasting color palette such as a greater emphasis on split
complements or tetradic combinations.

create a uniquely personal color palette With the color knowledge you learned in this class and some simple, free, t
9. Once you feel you have the HEX value of your hair, eyes, and skin tone, go to the Adobe Color CC website https://
14. You should now have 24 colors for each of your Hair, Eyes, and Skin that are uniquely suited to your natural colors.

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