Color Palette Generator
A free Color Palette Calculator to try different colors for your design project.
Choose a base color and appropriate color harmony to quickly build a color palette.
How This Tool Works.
Our Color Palette Generator uses established color theory to build beautiful, balanced palettes from a single base color. It’s perfect for designers, developers, and creatives looking for inspiration.
Choose Your Base Color.
You have three easy ways to select your starting color, and all of them are synced in real-time:
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Type a Hex Code: Enter a known hex code directly into the text field.
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Use the Color Swatch: Click the colorful circle to open your system's native color picker.
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Use the Color Wheel: For a more visual approach, simply click and drag the selector on the interactive color wheel.
As you select your color, you'll instantly see its direct complementary color displayed in the swatch to the right and as a live marker on the color wheel itself.
Select a Color Harmony.
Once you have your base color, choose one of the six classic color harmony models:
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Complementary - Creates a high-contrast palette with the color directly opposite your base color on the wheel.
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Monochromatic - Generates a subtle, elegant palette using different shades and tones of your single base color.
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Analogous - Builds a serene and versatile palette from colors that are adjacent to your base color.
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Split Complementary, Triadic, & Tetradic - Creates more vibrant and diverse palettes using geometric relationships on the color wheel.
Your Generated Palette.
As soon as you select a harmony, the results are displayed at the bottom as a set of color swatches. Each swatch shows the color and its corresponding hex code.
To use a color, simply click on any swatch to copy its hex code directly to your clipboard.