A curated list of color palette semi-automatic and AI-powered generators, and other alternatives. To find what you need faster, use Ctrl-F to search for any of following keywords:
- Target application or showcase type:
data(science, visualization),map,website,UI(desktop, etc.),other. - Export:
CSS,SCSS,JSON.
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- Building Your Color Palette — Explains how not to end up with UI that look like this.
Palettes are generated automagically or with AI. Usually you still can (sometimes must) specify a color to force such a tool to generate palettes around the provided color.
- Colormind — Automatic, deep-learned on photographs, movies, and popular art. Showcases:
website. - Coolors.co — A highly polished generator (
other). - Huemint — Applications:
website,other(brand, gradient, illustration). - Palx — Application:
UI,datavisualization. - Strapless — Application: CSS. Showcases: itself (
website). - Tailwind Ink — Application: CSS (
website).
Palettes provided by users and their votes.
- ColorCombos — Unspecialized (
other). - COLOURLovers — Unspecialized (
other).
Palettes created/curated by single man, single team, etc.
- ColorBrewer 2.0 — Intended for cartography. (Showcases:
map.) - Colors and Fonts — Applicatons:
website(CSS), MaterialUI. - Flat UI Colors 2 — Application:
UI. - Happy Hues — Showcases: itself (
website) and desktopUI.
Traditional ideas are used: color wheel, color harmony, complementary colors, triad, tetrad, etc.
- Adobe Color — Most polished in this category (in my opinion). (
other). - Paletton.com — Best previewing (in my opinion). Showcases:
website,other(artwork, fabric, animation). - Color Calculator — Unspecialized (
other).
- Colllor — Consistency (fixing some properties while varying only the rest). Unspecialized (
other). - Color Atlas — Unspecialized (
other). - ColorBox — Easing and distance on 2d space using Bézier curve. (
other,json) - i want hue — Clustering on 2d plane. Intended for plots and diagrams. (Application:
datascience.) - Systemic Color Palette — Parabolic formula to autofill color saturation for various intervals. (
other,CSS,SCSS,JSON)
No need to be special and original? Go with the color palette that works.
- Open Color — A single but especially robust color scheme (
other).
- spark-joy: easy ways to add design flair, user delight, and whimsy to your product — Includes color picking and color knowledge among other design-related things.
- Nodesign.dev — Tools for people who have to design but don't want to, including color-related tools.
- taketwo/glasbey — Python library for palette generation (
other).
- Encycolorpedia
- Wikipedia
- Color gradient generator
- Fluent UI Theme Designer
- colornames.org — A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors.