Is there a nice color scheme generator for beamer(poster)?

There are plenty of palette generators for the web, e.g., Color Scheme Designer . Among other stuff it can export schemes in XML. Is there a nice XSLT to convert it into STY file that I'd use with beamerposter? The caveat here is also that that generator uses RGB and not CMYK model. I understand I can manually code all the stuff as I want like

Or are there other easy ways to create pleasantly looking themes? I have a feeling that most of the themes are crafted by hands? Am I wrong?

On behalf of all colorblinds I have to confess that I didn't understand your question :-) Joking aside, do you want to come up with a new color scheme? If so, it would be really helpful for you to read the color definitions in the original beamer theme files that you can find in your TeX distribution folder. As with all good things, you need to define all the fine details to make it good so I am almost sure that there is no free lunch.

Another remark is that, web based color palettes are not even close to what makes a good palette for a presentation. Note that unlike the majority, I think a presentation is substantially different than a CSS design.

I'm interested mostly in color themes for a poster. If "good" palette can loosely be defined, there must be a way to generate them in bulk. I did not say that straightforward conversion is exactly what I want. It might be one approach that at least provides some starting point. I understand that one particular approach won't fit all possible presentation themes. Beamer manual describes all possible dials but not how to tune and combine those unless I missed something.

The beamerposter theme examples are a good place to start. You can see that every theme file has a color declaration section in the respective .sty file. Hence, the easiest is to take one and bit-by-bit modify it. It's not that cumbersome.

So unless anyone else reply otherwise, I conclude that my assumption was correct. There is no "generator" of any kind out there and it is not just my bad google-fu. I did read manual and I did change stuff in beamerposter theme. It is a PITA to do it "bit-by-bit".

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My university (UCL) has a style guide and guidelines for the colours that should be used in all publications (i.e. a corporate identity). I found this to be a good place to start in selecting colours for a student poster. Style guides will (hopefully) have been designed by graphic designers who should know which combinations of colours work!

I created a colour palette (which I've included below), and then referred to this using \setbeamercolour commands in a .sty file.