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Spacebar-driven palette generator with 10M+ browsable palettes, image colour extraction, contrast checking, gradient tools and palette mockup previews.

Curated overly descriptive color palettes with names and hex codes, built as a design-inspiration source rather than a generator.

Curated color palettes derived from famous works of art, presented as usable hex sets.

Tailwind palette generator that builds full colour scales from one hex and previews them across cards, dashboards and full pages.

Trains on colors you personally like, then generates unlimited palettes, gradients and type samples in your own taste.

Pick colors by dragging across a hue field and instantly get monochromatic, analogic and triadic sets with lightness control.

Around thirty thousand tagged colour palettes with one-tap hex copying, favourites, image-to-palette extraction and JSON export.

Two-color pairing tool that shows every combination rendered as real UI so you can judge legibility, not swatches.

Paste a palette and preview it instantly on a full fake landing page, with export to Tailwind, CSS variables and Figma.

Thirty-two twelve-step colour scales where each step has a defined UI role, with automatic dark and alpha variants.

Generative random-color explorer with perceptual distance controls, color-blindness preview and a genuinely playful interface.

Generates mathematically exact 10% tints and shades of a hex color, the way brand guidelines usually specify them.

Searchable archive of roughly 23,000 colour palettes extracted from 3,000 painters' artworks, with a colour wheel and image analyser.

Palettes drawn from specific historical periods, letting you pick color by era rather than mood.

Single-purpose tool that expands one base colour into a full tint and shade ramp ready for a token file.

Utility that expands a single base hex color into a full 50-900 shade ramp suitable for Tailwind or CSS variables.

Fifty-eight browser-side utilities covering image editing, colour work, typography, PDF imposition, barcodes and conversion, with no accounts or tracking.

Desktop-grade web app for building color scales in LCh with live APCA contrast readouts and Figma-ready export.

Figma plugin that visualizes an existing palette and generates matching color variables across a scale.

Extracts dominant and palette colors from any image in your Figma file and outputs swatches you can apply.

Syncs opacity-derived styles from a set of primary color styles, keeping tints and overlays consistent as brand colors change.

Terminal, chart, heatmap and UI palettes engineered to stay distinguishable after aggressive Redshift or Night Shift warm-screen filtering.

Database of over 2500 pixel art palettes downloadable as PNG, PAL, ASE, GPL and HEX, filterable by colour count and tag.

Interactive explainer and playground for SVG feColorMatrix, showing how each matrix cell changes an image.

Converts a VS Code color theme into a Figma color library so design mockups of editors match the real thing.

Tool and Kotlin library for generating Material 3 dynamic colour schemes from a seed colour.

Article explaining why HSB beats hex for reasoning about UI colour, with rules for building consistent palettes.

Stripe engineering post on building a colour system that guarantees contrast ratios while preserving brand hue relationships.

Long essay deriving an algorithm for generating accessible, perceptually even colour palettes, with interactive demos.

Convert, generate and explore OKLCH colours and build perceptually even palettes from them.

Lightweight open-source contrast checker for Figma that samples selected layers and reports pass/fail without leaving the canvas.

Gallery collecting only dark-themed websites, with filtering to study dark palette and contrast decisions.

Framework for choosing and applying UI colour: neutrals, one accent, saturation ranges and when to break the rules.

Film still library with millions of HD frames hand-tagged across 30+ categories: lens, framing, lighting, color, location, even actor emotion.

Archive of every solid desktop background colour shipped by classic operating systems: 194 colours across 22 platforms, 1985 to 2024.

Free chapter preview explaining how to build a UI palette with defined shade ramps rather than lighten/darken functions.

Technical note defining colour-blind-safe qualitative, sequential and diverging palettes, with values and usage rules.

Generates sequential and diverging palettes for charts, interpolating in a perceptual space so steps read as even.

Uses a machine-learning model trained on real designs to generate palettes constrained to a chosen layout or brand context.

Type any word and get the dominant colors from image search results, turning language directly into hex values.

Tool that suggests the nearest passing colour alternatives when a pair fails contrast, instead of just reporting failure.

Adobe's contrast-first colour tool: define target contrast ratios and it generates the colours, plus adaptive theme output.

Palette and gradient generator that expands a single input colour into matching schemes, including three-colour gradient output.

Page that renders the current sky at your approximate location as a live CSS gradient, refreshing every minute.