1.Coolors
DesignNewFreemium
Best for: Fast exploring
Press the space bar for a new palette, lock the colors you like and keep shuffling. Export as CSS, an image or swatches.
The best color palette generators
By the Linkstore editors · Updated · 8 apps
A row of swatches looks great until you put it on a page. The tools here help with both halves: finding colors that work together, and checking them on real headlines, buttons and text.
All of them are free to use in a browser.
The picks at a glance
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2.Adobe Color
DesignNewFree
Best for: Harmony rules and contrast checks
Build palettes from a color wheel or an image, then check them for accessibility. Free.
3.Huemint
DesignNewFree
Best for: Brand palettes
Generates palettes for brands, sites and graphics, and shows them on mock layouts instead of swatches.
4.Color Hunt
DesignNewFree
Best for: Browsing for inspiration
Community-made four-color palettes you can search by mood, season or color and copy as hex.
Installable
See it on a page
5.Realtime Colors
DesignNewFree
Best for: Previewing colors and fonts together
Change a palette and typeface and watch a sample site update instantly, then export the result.
6.Happy Hues
DesignNewFree
Best for: Seeing which color goes where
Each palette comes with a small page showing which color to use for headlines, buttons and text.
Shades and color spaces
7.UI Colors
DesignNewFree
Best for: Tailwind shade ramps
Turn one color into a full Tailwind-style ramp of shades, then edit, save and share it.
8.OKLCH Color Picker
DesignNewFree
Best for: Modern CSS colors
See how lightness, chroma and hue interact in OKLCH, check gamut limits and copy the CSS. Made by Evil Martians.
Installable
How we picked
We picked from the color tools on Linkstore, each checked by a person, and grouped them by where you are in the process. Prices and ratings come from the listings. Nobody paid to be in this guide, and sponsored apps get no special place in it.
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