Palette Editor includes a number of default schemes.
| Analogous | Analogous color schemes use colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. |
| Complementary | A color on the opposite side of the wheel from the source |
| Harmonious | A variation of analogous where a color is taken from each "spoke" around the wheel |
| Monochromatic | Variations of the same hue, with evenly spaced saturation stepping |
| Split-Complimentary | The split-complementary color scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement. |
| Square | The square color scheme uses four colors arranged into complementary pairs spaced evenly around the color wheel. |
| Tetradic | The rectangle or tetradic color scheme uses four colors arranged into two complementary pairs. |
| Triadic | A triadic color scheme uses colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel. |