How to create pastel colors programmatically in C#?

Question

To generate them equally spaced out based on the number of colors wanted. Something that looks like this if 8 is given for the count specified:

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Answer 1

You can also take a look at Rich Newman's HSLColor class. He has a series of blog posts on it, starting with this one.

Using this code I was able to generate a series of colors evenly spaced around the color wheel, but you'll have to add additional logic if you want to include shades of grey.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) 
{ 
    listView1.Items.Clear(); 

    int step = 240 / 8; 

    for (int i = 0; i < 240; i += step) 
    { 
        HSLColor color = new HSLColor((double)i, 240, 160); 
        listView1.Items.Add(i.ToString()).BackColor = color; 
    }                
}