The Vibeary — tag

palette

30 resources in The Vibeary tagged "palette" — tools, libraries and references pulled from across the library's shelves, each one checked by hand before it was added.

Gems in this collection

Preview of pppalette

pppalette

Generates custom colour palettes from a chosen base colour, with exportable swatches and copyable CSS variable output.

fffuelfree
Preview of Coolors

Coolors

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

Fabrizio Bianchi (@fabrizio_bianchi)freemium
Preview of Colors.lol

Colors.lol

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

Adam Fuhrer (@adamfuhrer)free
Preview of UI Colors

UI Colors

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

Erik de Vriesfreemium
Preview of Khroma

Khroma

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

George Hastingsfree
Preview of Colourco.de

Colourco.de

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

Toni Wagnerfree
Preview of Realtime Colors

Realtime Colors

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

Juxtopposed (@juxtopposed)open-source
Preview of FarbVelo

FarbVelo

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

David Aerne (@meodai)free
Preview of shadesigner

shadesigner

Palette generator and theme designer that outputs shadcn-compatible colour scales and previews.

Tariel Davidashvilifreemium
Preview of Palette Inspiration

Palette Inspiration

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

Unknownfree
Preview of Huetone

Huetone

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

Alexey Ardov (@ardov)MIT
Preview of Valor

Valor

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

Kolebayevopen-source
Preview of Dominant Color Toolkit

Dominant Color Toolkit

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

Brian Lovin (@brian_lovin)open-source
Preview of poline

poline

Generates colour palettes from positions on a 3D polyline through HSL space, producing unusual but coherent schemes.

David Aerne (@meodai)MIT
Preview of Ember

Ember

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

carpdiemMIT
Preview of vapeplot

vapeplot

Matplotlib extension supplying vaporwave palettes and colormaps for deliberately non-corporate chart aesthetics.

Danny Antaki (@dantaki)MIT
Preview of Lospec Palette List

Lospec Palette List

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

Lospec communityfree
Preview of ditherjs

ditherjs

Small library that dithers any img element to a fixed palette using ordered or error-diffusion algorithms.

Daniele Piccone (@danielepiccone)MIT
Preview of How to pick the least wrong colors

How to pick the least wrong colors

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

Matthew Ström (@ilikescience)free
Preview of OKLCH.fyi

OKLCH.fyi

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

Jakub Krehel (@jakubkrehel)free
Preview of Desktop Colors

Desktop Colors

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

vlowfree
Preview of ewgenius/ui radix colors

ewgenius/ui radix colors

Tool for building shadcn themes directly from Radix Colors scales instead of hand-picking HSL values.

Evgeny Kuznetsov (@ewgenius)open-source
Preview of Paul Tol's Colour Schemes

Paul Tol's Colour Schemes

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

Paul Tolfree
Preview of Refactoring UI — Building Your Color Palette

Refactoring UI — Building Your Color Palette

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

Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger (@steveschoger)free
Preview of Colorable

Colorable

Minimal matrix that cross-checks every color in a palette against every other for WCAG contrast in one glance.

Brent Jackson (@jxnblk)MIT
Preview of Data Color Picker

Data Color Picker

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

Erik Kennedyfree
Preview of Huemint

Huemint

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

Jack Qiaofree
Preview of Picular

Picular

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

Future Memoriesfree
Preview of Palettte App

Palettte App

Edits existing palettes by plotting hue, saturation and brightness curves, letting you smooth an inherited messy color set.

Gabriel Adorffree
Preview of Viz Palette

Viz Palette

Tests a categorical chart palette for color-blind confusion, low-contrast pairs, and how it reads at small mark sizes.

Susie Lufree