---
title: "Palette Colourways"
method: POST
path: "/palette/colourways"
---

# Palette Colourways

`POST /palette/colourways`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.colourmemory.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.colourmemory.com/palette/colourways`
- Auth: none declared

Generate archive-grounded colourway variants from a base palette.
Takes a base palette and returns 2-3 variant colourways at different
tonal registers — darker, lighter, cooler, warmer, or complementary.
Each colourway is archive-verified and scored.

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, nullable
- `origin` string, nullable

## Request body

- PaletteColourwaysRequest
  - `base_palette` string[], required
  - `pattern_type` string
  - `n_colourways` integer
  - `direction` string
  - `archive` string
  - `use_case` string
  - `market` string

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/colourmemory/apis/colour-memory-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/colourmemory/apis/colour-memory-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/colourmemory/apis/colour-memory-api/revisions/4ba028f64042?raw)