-
Complementary: Includes two colors that are at opposite sides of a color wheel, or to put it another way, opposite hues. The two colors are defined as a base color, and the base color with hue channel +180 degrees.
-
Triadic: Includes three colors equal distances apart around the color wheel. The three colors are defined as a base color, base color with hue channel -120 degrees, and base color with hue channel +120 degrees.
-
Tetradic: Includes four colors equal distances apart around the color wheel. The four colors are defined as a base color, and base color with hue channel +90, +180, and +270 degrees.
-
Monochrome: Includes multiple colors with the same hue but varying lightness values. In our example we've defined five colors in a monochrome palette — base color, and base color with lightness channel -20, -10, +10, and +20.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_colors/Relative_colors