Color palette generators for designers

11 picks · Updated October 30, 2026

1. 

   Coolors

   The super-fast color-scheme generator loved by millions.

   

   1. Coolors

   Coolors generates a palette with one key press and lets you lock the colors you like while it shuffles the rest. Fast, fun and good for early exploration.

   Good for: Fast palette exploration

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2. 

   Realtime Colors

   Visualize your color palette on a real website in real time.

   

   2. Realtime Colors

   Realtime Colors shows your palette on a real website layout while you edit it. Seeing text, buttons and backgrounds together catches problems a row of swatches hides.

   Good for: Testing a palette on a real layout

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3. 

   Huemint

   Use machine learning to generate color schemes for brands.

   

   3. Huemint

   Huemint uses machine learning to suggest palettes for a brand, a website or an illustration, and previews them in context. Good when you are stuck and want different directions.

   Good for: New palette directions for brands

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4. 

   Adobe Color

   Create color schemes and explore trends from the community.

   

   4. Adobe Color

   Adobe Color builds palettes from color harmony rules and from photos, and has a contrast checker. It syncs with Adobe apps if you use them.

   Good for: Harmony rules and palettes from photos

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5. 

   Khroma

   The AI color tool that learns which colors you like.

   

   5. Khroma

   Khroma learns which colors you like from a quick pick at the start, then suggests combinations based on that. More personal than random generators.

   Good for: Palettes tuned to your taste

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6. 

   Leonardo

   Generates accessible color palettes from target contrast ratios.

   

   6. Leonardo

   Leonardo, from Adobe, builds color scales from target contrast ratios. You say how much contrast you need and it gives you colors that meet it, in light and dark themes.

   Good for: Accessible color systems

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7. 

   Radix Colors

   A gorgeous, accessible color system for design systems.

   

   7. Radix Colors

   Radix Colors is a ready made color system with twelve steps per color, each step meant for a job: backgrounds, borders, solid fills, text. Light and dark versions match.

   Good for: A complete UI color system

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8. 

   UI Colors

   Generate and export Tailwind CSS color palettes.

   

   8. UI Colors

   UI Colors turns one color into a full Tailwind CSS scale from 50 to 950 and exports it. Quick when you need a brand color in a Tailwind project.

   Good for: Tailwind color scales

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9. 

   Happy Hues

   A color palette inspiration site that shows palettes in context.

   

   9. Happy Hues

   Happy Hues shows each palette applied to a full example site, with notes on which color goes where. Useful for learning how to assign colors, not only pick them.

   Good for: Learning where each color goes

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10. 

    Color Hunt

    A free, open platform for color palette inspiration.

    

    10. Color Hunt

    Color Hunt is a big community collection of four color palettes. Good for browsing when you have no starting color at all.

    Good for: Browsing palettes for ideas

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11. 

    OKLCH Color Picker

    OKLCH is a new way to encode colors (like hex, RGBA, or HSL)

    

    11. OKLCH Color Picker

    OKLCH Color Picker helps you work in OKLCH, a color space where lightness looks even across hues. That makes building consistent scales much easier than in HSL.

    Good for: Working in OKLCH

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