Although you can assign any colour you’d like to Lumatone’s keys, it’s best to remember that the physical keys of the instrument are a special LED key designed to use colour in combination with light.

It’s best to experiment with programming colours into your Lumatone to get the hang of what this means, but in basic terms, this means that it's best to avoid too bright or too dim colours. Colours with too little brightness/lightness will appear very dim and at times seem almost completely unlit, and the colour black will display with no light at all, rather than appearing “black.” Meanwhile, colours that are very bright will start to lose contrast.

You'll find you can use pure white as a bright way to denote specific keys, but then you'll want to use shades of less bright colours in order to find enough contrast. 

But who wants to talk about colour, right? The best way to figure it out is to see for yourself. We’ve included some great colour palettes to get you started that look fantastic on Lumatone, but when choosing your own, experiment and find an approach that works best to your eyes.