Color Palette Generator
Create beautiful color palettes instantly. Generate harmonious color schemes, lock your favorite colors and copy HEX, RGB or HSL values.
Create Your Color Palette
Generate, lock, copy and save colors
Color Scheme
Choose how palette colors relate to each other
Used for harmony-based schemes
Tip: Lock colors you want to keep, then generate again. Press the spacebar for a new palette.
❤️ Saved Palettes
Keep your favorite palette combinations for later.
Save a palette to see it here.
Powerful Features
Everything You Need to Build Color Palettes
Instant Palettes
Generate fresh color combinations with a single click.
Lock Colors
Keep selected colors unchanged while generating new options.
Harmony Modes
Create analogous, complementary, triadic and other schemes.
Easy Copying
Copy HEX, RGB or HSL values directly to your clipboard.
Simple Process
How to Create a Color Palette
Build a useful color scheme in just three steps.
Choose a Scheme
Select random, monochromatic, analogous, complementary or another harmony mode.
Generate & Lock
Generate a palette and lock any colors you want to preserve.
Copy or Save
Copy individual color codes, copy the entire palette or save it for later.
Color Design Guide
What Is a Color Palette Generator?
A color palette generator is an online tool that creates groups of colors for use in websites, mobile apps, branding, graphics, presentations, illustrations and other visual projects.
Instead of choosing every color manually, you can generate a complete palette and explore different relationships between colors. This can make it easier to discover combinations that fit a specific visual direction or design concept.
Types of Color Schemes
Different harmony modes create different relationships between colors.
Random Palette
Creates independent random colors for unexpected and experimental combinations.
Monochromatic
Uses variations of a similar hue with different saturation and lightness values.
Analogous
Uses nearby hues to create smooth and visually related combinations.
Complementary
Uses opposing hues to create stronger visual contrast.
Split Complementary
Combines a base hue with colors near its opposite for balanced contrast.
Triadic
Uses hues distributed around the color wheel for energetic combinations.
Understanding HEX, RGB and HSL
HEX Color Codes
HEX codes represent colors using hexadecimal values and are widely used in CSS and web design. An example is #7C3AED.
RGB Colors
RGB represents red, green and blue channels. Each channel commonly uses a value between 0 and 255.
HSL Colors
HSL represents hue, saturation and lightness. It can be especially useful when creating related color variations.
Common Uses for Color Palettes
Website Design
Build color systems for backgrounds, buttons, text and interface elements.
Brand Identity
Explore potential brand colors for logos and visual identity systems.
Mobile Apps
Create interface palettes for screens, navigation and interactive elements.
Social Media
Develop consistent color combinations for posts and visual campaigns.
Presentations
Choose coordinated colors for slides, charts and visual highlights.
Graphic Design
Generate color ideas for posters, illustrations and digital artwork.
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