Color Palette Generator

About the Color Palette Generator

The Color Palette Generator is a free online tool that creates beautiful, harmonious color schemes for your design projects. Start with any color and generate complementary, analogous, triadic, or monochromatic palettes instantly. Extract colors from uploaded images, browse curated palettes, and export your schemes in CSS, SCSS, or Tailwind formats. Every palette includes hex, RGB, and HSL values for easy use in any design tool or codebase.

Color theory is at the heart of great design, and this tool makes it accessible to everyone. The built-in color harmony rules are based on traditional color theory, giving you professional-quality palettes with a single click. The image color extraction identifies the dominant colors in any photo or artwork, making it perfect for creating brand palettes from inspiration images.

How to Use the Color Palette Generator

1. Pick a base color — Use the color picker or enter a hex code to choose your starting color.
2. Choose a harmony rule — Select complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, or monochromatic.
3. Generate and refine — The tool creates a complete palette. Lock colors you like and regenerate specific ones.
4. Export your palette — Copy individual hex codes, export as CSS variables, or save colors for later.

Who Needs a Color Palette Generator

• Web designers — Create cohesive color schemes for websites and apps with proper contrast ratios.
• UI/UX designers — Build accessible color systems with WCAG contrast ratings built in.
• Brand designers — Develop and extend brand color guidelines with professional harmony rules.
• Frontend developers — Generate CSS variables, SCSS variables, or Tailwind config for their design systems.