Quickly Pick Complement Color

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.


Ben
April 23rd, 2008
Great tip!
Off topic, but what font are you using for this example?
Rype
April 23rd, 2008
Ben,
The font is Chicken Basket, from Font Diner.
http://www.fontdiner.com/main.html
Danni
April 23rd, 2008
AWESOME, Thanks
Will Sherwood
April 23rd, 2008
Again. Well done.
lex
April 24th, 2008
nice trick
Geert
April 29th, 2008
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!
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Mike
May 12th, 2008
For me its command click, no shift required. Shift command click gives me the inverse.
George Coghill
May 28th, 2008
Cool tips. Now I need to wrap my head around the difference between Invert & Compliment - they produce two slightly different colors.
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I can’t believe I’m just now finding your site, and I really love this post! Thanks for sharing.
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