In this writing, I explore how ChatGPT approaches building a triad color scheme for the Pantone 2024 Color of the Year. I will compare the ChatGPT result with the suggested Pantone recommendation. On the color wheel, a triad color harmony uses three colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. I want to determine how well ChatGPT understands this concept and offers a color Hex code solution. Let’s begin by reviewing the triad color harmony and the Pantone Color of the Year concepts.

The Triad Color Harmony:

Color harmony is the process of choosing colors on a color wheel that work well together in the composition of an image. Isaac Newton is credited with creating the color wheel concept when he closed the linear color spectrum into a color circle in the early 1700s. Over the centuries, artists and color scientists amplified his concept to include color harmonies. Below, I show the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color wheel based on the concept that Red, Green and Blue (RGB) are the color primaries for viewing displays like what we see on our desktop and mobile devices. Three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel form a triad or triadic color harmony. Two fundamental triad color combinations on an RGB Color Wheel are the Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) primaries and the Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (CMY) set used in…