Color Palette Generator

Our Free Color Palette Generator is a powerful design tool created to help web designers, graphic artists, UI/UX professionals, and creative enthusiasts discover perfect color combinations for their projects. Whether you're designing a website, creating digital art, developing a brand identity, or planning interior decor, having a harmonious color palette is essential for creating visually appealing and professional designs.

Unlike basic color pickers, our advanced color scheme generator uses color theory principles to create balanced and aesthetically pleasing combinations that work together seamlessly. The tool allows you to generate palettes based on established color harmony rules, extract colors from images, and customize your palettes with precise control.

Color Harmony Types Explained

• Monochromatic Color Scheme: Variations of a single color hue, using different shades, tints, and tones. This creates a subtle, sophisticated look that's perfect for minimal designs and establishes a sense of cohesion and elegance.
• Analogous Color Scheme: Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, creating a harmonious and cohesive look. These palettes appear natural and comfortable to the eye, making them ideal for websites and designs that need a calming effect.
• Complementary Color Scheme: Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel, creating a high-contrast, vibrant look. This approach creates dynamic tension and makes elements stand out, perfect for call-to-action buttons and focal points in your design.
• Triadic Color Scheme: Three colors equally spaced around the color wheel, offering a balanced yet vibrant palette. This provides high contrast while maintaining color harmony, making it excellent for lively, energetic designs.
• Split-Complementary Color Scheme: A variation of the complementary color scheme that uses a base color and two colors adjacent to its complement. This creates visual interest and contrast while being less intense than a strict complementary scheme.
• Tetradic (Double Complementary) Color Scheme: Uses four colors arranged in two complementary pairs, creating a rich, varied palette with multiple possibilities for accent colors and highlights.

Advanced Features

• Image Color Extraction: Upload any image to automatically extract its dominant colors and create a palette that matches your inspiration photo or artwork.
• Color Locking: Lock specific colors in your palette while regenerating others, allowing you to keep colors you love while exploring variations.
• Multiple Export Formats: Export your color palettes in various formats including HEX, RGB, HSL, CSS variables, SCSS variables, Tailwind CSS config, and more.
• Palette History: Automatically saves your recently generated palettes, so you never lose a great color combination.
• Accessibility Checking: Evaluate color contrast ratios to ensure your designs meet WCAG accessibility standards for text readability.

How to Use Our Color Scheme Generator

1. Select a base color using the intuitive color picker or enter a specific HEX, RGB, or HSL value.
2. Choose a color harmony type from the dropdown menu to determine how colors will relate to each other.
3. Adjust the number of colors you want in your palette (between 2-10 colors).
4. Click "Generate Palette" to create your color scheme based on color theory principles.
5. For inspiration, use the "Random Palette" option to discover unexpected color combinations.
6. Upload an image to extract colors directly from your visual references.
7. Lock colors you like and regenerate the rest of the palette to fine-tune your selection.
8. Save your favorite palettes for later use or export them in various formats for your projects.

Our Color Palette Generator is designed to be intuitive and powerful, providing both beginners and experienced designers with the tools they need to create beautiful and effective color schemes. Start exploring and unlock your creativity today!