PPG Paints Northern Lights (PPG1137-2) Paint coordinating colors and palettes

Monochromatic Color Palette

Monochromatic colors belong to the same hue angle but different tints and shades. Monochromatic color palette can be generated by keeping the exact hue of the base color and then changing the saturation and lightness.

Analogous Color Palette

Analogous colors are a group of colors adjacent to each other on a color wheel. Group of these adjacent colors forms Analogous color scheme Palette. Analogous Palette can be generated by increasing or decreasing the hue value by 30 points.

Triadic and Triadic Color Scheme Palette

Here is the Triadic and Tetradic Color Scheme of Northern Lights (PPG1137-2). The triadic color palette has three colors separated by 120° in the RGB color wheel and tetradic colour scheme composed of two sets of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.

Hexadic Color Palette

Hexadic color scheme palette is derived from drawing a hexagon on a color wheel. The palette contains three pairs of complementary colors, each colors are separated by a 120-degree hue angle.

Complementary Color Palette

Complementary color combination is composed using two colors opposite each other on the color wheel. Then the color palette is be generated by changing the lightness/brightness of these two colors.

Split-Complementary Color Palette

Split-Complementary color combination contains three colors, a base color and secondary colors of complementary color.