Dynamic Colour (Color) Harmony with Actionscript

If you’re familiar with the fab Nodebox, a Python based app for creating 2D graphics, then you may have come across the really impressive colour library. It allows you to do wonderful things with colour such as finding complementary colours to a base colour and even finding colours that go with keywords such as “fire”.

So inspired by that library I created a very very simple colour harmony class for AS3 that fires back six complementary colors given a base color. You can adjust the weighting too, so you can get various different shades back. In no way is it as sophisticated as the Nodebox library, but it might just prove useful to someone out there who wants a simple colour harmony calculator.

As a little demo, just keep clicking on the little Flash movie below to get a random base colour, defined by the big circle in the background and six complementary colours. This demo is included with the source file download.

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