From time to time,I need to find a set of colors that look good together and it turns out this is much easier than you think. Color theory states that if you look at the color wheel and that is exactly opposite (180 degrees) your color, it will match. Now that will give you 2 colors. Say you want 3. Then you create a triangle between your color and the two other colors that are exactly 120 degrees. It turns out you can keep doing this. For instance, if you want 6 colors than 360 / 6 = 60 and therefor you want the colors that are at 60,120,180,240,300 degrees away from your point.
So here's a little bit of javascript that will generate a color palette off of a single HEX color. Just enter the color,the count, hit generate, and it will dump the colors that look good with your original color. I've found this stuff pretty useful and couldn't find anything on that web that would do all the conversion for me.... Enjoy.
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