Quickly Pick Complement Color
Tricks | April 23rd, 2008
In Illustrator, it’s easy to pick a complement color of the current Fill or Stroke in the Color Panel. From the Pop-Up Menu of the Color Panel select Complement. If you are keyboard shortcut freak, like me, you can change to the complement color by Command Shift-clicking (Mac) or Ctrl-Shift-clicking (Win) on the Color Ramp at the bottom of the Color panel.
Great tip!
Off topic, but what font are you using for this example?
Ben,
The font is Chicken Basket, from Font Diner.
http://www.fontdiner.com/main.html
AWESOME, Thanks
Again. Well done.
nice trick
Thanks for this tip! However, note that the ⌘+Shift+Color ramp click picks a slightly lighter color than going via the menu. Have no idea why.
While playing around, I discovered that ⌥+Color ramp click will set the stroke color. And the combination ⌥+⌘+Color ramp click will set a complement stroke color. Handy!
For me its command click, no shift required. Shift command click gives me the inverse.
Cool tips. Now I need to wrap my head around the difference between Invert & Compliment – they produce two slightly different colors.
I can’t believe I’m just now finding your site, and I really love this post! Thanks for sharing.
To think I’ve been picking them manually all these years. I had no idea this option even existed lol
Great stuff.