How to find a contrasting color?

[edu]

Hello, I wonder how to do this effectively, the most straightforward way possible.

I have a background shape of a certain color, and want to have a font on top of it with a color that is the opposite (negative) of the background color. How can I easily find that out?

Eduardo

[haakoo]

Contrasting,complementary do it here

http://kuler.adobe.com/#

Hans

[edu]

Wow. I bookmarked that site. Thanks. But I would like to see something done with xara. Not all the fancy array of creation of color scheme, mostly the complementary one.

Eduardo

[MEB]

Wow. I bookmarked that site. Thanks. But I would like to see something done with xara. Not all the fancy array of creation of color scheme, mostly the complementary one.

Eduardo

Welcome to Talkgraphics Eduardo.
There´s no direct way to do what you want as far as i know. You can however select your text - this will make the background of the text change to the opposite/contrasting color - then pick the color with an external color picker (not the one integrated in xtreme - it will not work) to get the correct color values.

[RTK]

In H S V colour mode...

H = degrees on the colour wheel.

Add 180 degrees "to get to the other side"?

On your colour line = Red is 0 100% 100%

add 180 degrees =

Cyan 180 100% 100%

Risto

[Scotty]

Hi,
I believe a talented forum member Bill Taylor has a color wheel postes on the XaraOne website which includes instructions that give the various harmonies.
Jim
Here is the link
http://www.xaraxone.com/html/templates.html

[handrawn]

thanks for the link Jim I knew I'd seen that somewhere on the xone

[DanDaBear]

There's also the Colour Mixer, which gives harmonics and complementary colors along with Xpal to create color palettes.