Choose a base color
Enter your base color as HEX or pick it with the swatch.
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Color Palette Generator
Build harmonious color palettes from any base colorStarting from one brand color and needing five that actually work together is where most people stall. Enter a base color as HEX or pick it with the swatch, and this generator builds six harmonies around it instantly.
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Use Color Palette Generator
Build harmonious color palettes from any base color
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Neighbors on the wheel. Calm, cohesive and professional.
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How to use the Color Palette Generator
Pick a harmony
Choose a harmony: complementary, analogous, triadic and more.
Export the palette
Copy the HEX codes or CSS variables, or download the palette image.
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About the Color Palette Generator
Give it one base color and this palette generator builds complementary, analogous, triadic, and more color schemes, each shown as large swatches with HEX codes.
Every color includes lighter and darker variants, and the whole scheme exports as CSS variables in one click.
Where it helps most
One input color, six structured answers.
Rebranding projects
Rebrand a site around an existing logo color, building a full scheme without guessing at which combinations actually work together.
Design systems
Build a design system token set with background tints, hover states, borders and text colors, all from the variant strips.
Slide decks
Pick slide deck colors that do not clash for the next presentation, starting from a single brand color you already have.
Client options
Explore options for a client who only knows they want something blue, with every HEX code just one click away.
Using it well
Geometry, not guesswork.
Six harmonies
Complementary for punch, analogous for calm, triadic for playful brands, plus split-complementary, tetradic and disciplined monochromatic for every brand mood.
Variant strips
Every color comes with a strip of lighter and darker variants: background tints, hover states, borders and text colors all live there.
Real exports
The whole scheme copies out as ready-made CSS variables for your stylesheet, and a palette strip image downloads for mood boards.
Color Palette Generator: built for trust
Click any swatch to copy its HEX in one click, or export the whole scheme as ready-made CSS variables.
Color Palette Generator FAQs
It depends on the site's mood. Analogous schemes feel calm and professional, good for corporate sites. Complementary pairs give strong contrast for calls to action. Triadic schemes are vibrant and suit playful brands, and monochromatic schemes are the safest choice when you want one color used with discipline.
