Color Palette Generator
Generate beautiful, harmonious color palettes for any project.
About Color Palette Generator
Generate stunning color palettes for websites, apps, and design projects. Create complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic color harmonies from any base color. Export as CSS variables, HEX codes, or Tailwind config. Generate unlimited palettes free.
Generate unlimited color palettes with proper color theory-based harmony rules — not random colors. The CSS variables export means you can paste generated palettes directly into your project. No design software, no account, no limits.
How to Use Color Palette Generator
- 1Click the color picker to select your base color, or the starting point for your palette.
- 2Choose a harmony type: Analogous (adjacent colors, harmonious), Complementary (opposite colors, high contrast), Triadic (three evenly spaced colors), or Random.
- 3Five harmonious colors generate instantly based on your selection.
- 4Click 'Regenerate' to get new variations while keeping the same harmony and base color.
- 5Click any color swatch to copy its HEX code, or copy the full CSS variables block.
Key Features
Use Cases for Color Palette Generator
Website Color Scheme Design
Generate a complete 5-color palette from your brand's primary color. Use the CSS variables output directly in your stylesheet. Analogous palettes work well for background gradients; complementary palettes work for primary + accent combinations.
Brand Identity Development
Explore color combinations for new brand identities. Start with a mood or feeling (violet for creativity, blue for trust, green for growth), generate palettes, and iterate quickly without needing design software.
Tailwind CSS Custom Themes
Generate a complete color system for your Tailwind config. The 5 generated colors work well as your primary-100 through primary-900 variants when adjusted for lightness.
Data Visualization Color Scales
Generate accessible, distinguishable color sets for charts and graphs. Triadic palettes give three clearly distinct colors — essential when displaying multiple data series that must be distinguishable for colorblind users.
For website design, use analogous palettes for a calm, professional feel, and complementary palettes when you need high-contrast button and CTA colors. The 'warm neutral' approach — one color + 4 neutral variations — works excellently for SaaS and e-commerce sites.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes a good color palette?
Good palettes follow color harmony principles. Complementary colors create contrast. Analogous colors create cohesion. Limit to 3-5 colors: a primary, secondary, accent, neutral, and background.
How many colors should a website palette have?
Most successful websites use 3-4 core colors: a primary brand color, a secondary color, an accent for CTAs, and neutral grays for text and backgrounds.
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