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The ultimate color companion app for tabletop gamers and hobby painters alike.
Explore a universe of color, forge and manage your painter's hoard.
Highlights & Shadows
Heed the words of the ancient masters: a flat coat of paint is but cold, unworked steel. It is in the interplay of absolute darkness and searing light that a model's soul is truly forged. Proper highlights and shadows are the hammer blows that shape a masterpiece. This tool is your anvil and bellows, a place to command the elements and bend them to your will.
Choose your base color and watch as the Forge generates a cascade of molten highlights and abyssal shades. Ascend beyond the simple path of adding black and white; here, you can practice true color alchemy. Heed the sacred words—two thin coats—as you test your creation upon the spectral warrior and witness your scheme's power before committing it to your unpainted legions.
How to use the Highlights & Shadows Generator
Select any paint from the database as your base colour, or enter a custom hex code, and the generator calculates a full range of highlights and shadows using colour theory principles. The output applies hue shifting — warm highlights, cool shadows, or vice versa — not just lightening and darkening, giving results that match the approach of studio painters.
Use the sliders to control the number of highlight and shadow steps, target lightness values, saturation adjustment, and colour temperature shift. These settings let you replicate realistic lighting effects and match any painting style without experimenting on a real miniature first.
Generated swatches are matched back to real paints from your collection or the full database, so every result is a buyable colour rather than a theoretical hex value. Click any swatch to see its closest paint matches, and preview the full scheme on the warrior figure before committing it to your models.