Colors

The fastest color scheme generator on the web, space bar to reroll, still the default recommendation for quick palettes.

Color wheel, palette extraction from images and built-in contrast and colorblind-safe checking, still the most complete free color tool.

A community-curated stream of trending four-color palettes, filterable by mood and tag.

A scrolling wall of named CSS gradients you can grab in one click, still a fast way to eyeball a gradient pairing.

The palette that defined an entire era of flat design, still handy as a quick, safe default swatch set.

Generative AI palettes shown live on website, branding, and gradient templates with a safe-to-wild creativity slider.

Trains a tiny neural net on 50 colors you like, then feeds you endless personalized palettes.

Preview your palette and type choices directly on a live mock website instead of swatches in a vacuum.

Deep reference page for any hex value with conversions, tints, harmonies and matching paint brand colors.

Crowdsourced project to name all 16.7 million hex colors, surprisingly handy when you need a word for a shade.

Adobe's contrast-driven tool for building accessible color scales, not just single palettes, for UI and dataviz.

Upload an image and view it through eight types of color vision deficiency to sanity-check a palette.

The traditional Japanese color palette with names and CMYK/RGB values, beautifully presented and endlessly useful for restrained schemes.

Traditional Chinese color names and values presented in the same spirit, a great source of unusual muted tones.

Interactive restoration of the 1821 color naming system Darwin used, with the original mineral, plant and animal references.

Contrast checking that shows you which nearby colors would pass, rather than just failing you.

Public-domain art and vintage graphic archive with extracted palettes on many items, useful for historical color research.

Shows each palette applied to a real mock webpage instead of flat swatches, so you can judge it in context.

Generates full palettes and gradients from a single hex code, with export presets for common CSS formats.

Open-source set of vivid two-tone gradient swatches, copy-paste ready as CSS or design-tool palettes.

A classic color-wheel tool for building complementary, triadic and tetradic schemes, dated but still functional.