A Geometric Approach to Harmonic Color Palette Design

TL;DR

This paper introduces a geometric method for designing harmonic color palettes by modeling colors as normal distributions in tone and hue, using CIE standards to evaluate proximity, and demonstrating the effectiveness of specific line patterns through experiments.

Contribution

It presents a novel geometric approach for harmonic color palette design based on probabilistic color modeling and proximity evaluation using CIE standards.

Findings

Certain line parameters are preferred for harmonic color selection.

Uncertain line patterns outperform non-linear patterns.

The approach improves palette harmony based on experimental results.

Abstract

We address the problem of finding harmonic colors, this problem has many applications, from fashion to industrial design. In order to solve this problem we consider that colors follow normal distributions in tone (chroma and lightness) and hue. The proposed approach relies in the CIE standard for representing colors and evaluate proximity. Other approaches to this problem use a set of rules. Experimental results show that lines with specific parameters angles of inclination, and distance from the reference point are preferred over others, and that uncertain line patterns outperform non-linear patterns.