Bead color decisions start with one bead, the one you love and want to build around. What comes next is geometry, not luck: the color wheel arranges every hue in a circle, and the relationships between positions on that circle are the three kinds of "goes with" that palettes are made from. The Color Lab computes them live from your chosen bead.
Sits opposite, the complement. The bead directly across the wheel from yours carries its complementary hue. Bead for bead, that pair holds the strongest contract on the wheel: against the complement, a color looks the most like itself. Cuffs want a pop; the opposite position finds it.
Sits next door, the analogues. The neighbors on either side of your bead share its temperature and blend with it, the calm, ribbon-like palettes that read as one idea from a distance. Analogous sets are how gradients and tonal strands get built without anything clashing.
Sits a third of the wheel away, the triad. Two beads at equal-thirds turns from yours give a three-color scheme that stays balanced from every angle. Triads are the fair ones: no single color dominates, and the set keeps tension even across a wide piece.
The lab's flow is the palette-maker's flow: enter the bead you love, read the three kinds of goes-with, then take the palette into the cuff designer and paint. Everything happens in the browser, the bead you pick and the charts you draw stay on your device. The shop lists the same three relationships in the app's color tools for the patterns you take on the road.
Pick the bead you love, read the wheel, paint the chart this week., the bench crew
