Struggled with finding the perfect iris/pupil combination for hexes? Behold the behemoth eye chart. (Download link below)
Choosing iris/pupil combinations for my hexes is one of the things that I get hung up on when designing a hex. I find myself resigning to regular ol’ black pupil + lighter iris combinations. So it sparked the idea to make an eye chart of iris/pupil combinations to help generate new ideas for eye colors that one might not have ever thought to try. It helped me to find some hidden gems and some new hexing ideas!
Choosing Colors for the Eye Chart
I had to be selective about which colors I was going to include because….obviously I wasn’t going to do all 255 colors (I value my sanity, however little of it I have left). In any case, a lot of the colors were the same/similar.
How to Use
The chart is a bit…overwhelming and a little hard on the eyes - no pun intended! The PSD eye chart is meant to be interactable with layers that you can toggle on or off for ease of visibility. The eyes are separated into their different components (Eyelid, pupil, iris, sclera, and outline). You can recolor the eyelid, outline and sclera layers to match your hexing project. I’ve also included some rulers to let you look at one row or column at a time (hold down shift while moving so it moves in a straight line).
The top most layer is a “curated filter” to black out “dud” combinations. (The curated filter is by no means perfect.) The filter was geared toward finding “traditional” combinations where the iris is lighter and the pupil is darker. You might be thinking why I didn’t just limit the pupils across the top to dark colors and irises along the side to light colors. Unfortunately, that would’ve eliminated a lot of pretty pale colored eye combinations.
Given the size of the chart, it might be a task to obtain the color number. If you can get a copy - I highly recommend using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I’m still using my OLD CD copy that I got when I was a kid. If you apply the petz palette to your image you can obtain the number of the color just by hovering over it with the eyedropper.
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I hope this is the only eye chart you'll ever need! Feel free to share this with others!
