A full ladder of tints and shades — from nearly white to nearly black — generated from a single base color, giving a consistent set of related colors to build an interface from.
Synonyms
- tonal range
- tonal scale
Related terms
In plain words
- one color lined up from very light to very dark
- all the shades of a single color arranged in a row
Usage example
We picked step 40 from the blue tonal palette for the primary button.
Don't confuse with…
- color paletteA color palette is the whole set of hues a brand uses; a tonal palette is the light-to-dark range of just one of them.
Categories
- Color