🎨 Color Palette Generator

Generate matching color schemes. Lock your favorites and randomize the rest. Copy HEX values instantly.

About This Tool

Color Palette Generator

Generate harmonious color palettes for your design projects — choose from complementary, triadic, analogous, and more.

Why Use This Tool?

  • Build a consistent color scheme for your brand, logo, or website
  • Generate accessible color combinations that meet contrast standards
  • Export hex, RGB, or HSL codes for use in CSS, Figma, or Illustrator
  • Find complementary colors for any base color automatically
  • Useful for graphic designers, web developers, and content creators

Overview

A well-chosen colour palette is the foundation of any successful brand, website, or design project. Colours evoke emotion, communicate brand values, and guide user attention — and getting them right requires understanding colour theory. Our Color Palette Generator takes the guesswork out of colour selection by automatically generating harmonious colour combinations based on proven colour theory principles. Enter a base colour and the tool generates complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, and monochromatic palettes. Each palette shows shades in HEX, RGB, and HSL formats so you can copy the exact values needed for your CSS, design tool, or print workflow. Colour palettes are used across every design discipline — branding, UI/UX, marketing, illustration, interior design, and fashion. Whether you are building a website, designing a logo, creating social media content, or just exploring colour combinations for a personal project, this tool gives you professional-grade colour harmony in seconds. Save your favourite palettes and iterate quickly to find the perfect combination.

How to Use

  • 1

    Enter or Pick a Base Color

    Click the colour picker or type a hex code to choose your starting colour. This becomes the anchor for your palette.

  • 2

    Select a Harmony Type

    Choose from Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, Split-Complementary, Tetradic, or Monochromatic harmony.

  • 3

    Browse the Generated Palette

    The tool instantly generates a coordinated colour palette based on your chosen harmony rule.

  • 4

    Copy Color Codes

    Click any colour swatch to copy its HEX, RGB, or HSL value directly to your clipboard.

  • 5

    Export Your Palette

    Download the full palette as an image or JSON file to use in Figma, Illustrator, or your CSS variables.

Frequently Asked Questions

Complementary colours are directly opposite each other on the colour wheel (e.g., blue and orange). They create high contrast and vibrant visual impact.
Analogous colours sit adjacent to each other on the colour wheel (e.g., blue, blue-green, green). They create a harmonious, calm, cohesive look.
Most effective design palettes use 3–5 colours: one primary, one secondary, one or two accent colours, and neutral tones for backgrounds and text.
Yes. All generated palettes are yours to use freely in commercial and personal projects with no attribution required.
Yes. Hover over any colour to see its WCAG contrast ratio against white and black, helping you choose accessible text and background combinations.