Color Picker and Palette Generator
Pick a base color and build a matching five-color palette you can copy as hex.
Color Palette Generator
Pick a base color and build a matching five-color palette you can copy as hex.
Starts in your browser. Instructions are below.
How to use Color Palette Generator
- 01Pick a base color with the color swatch or type a hex code.
- 02Choose a harmony: analogous, complementary, triadic or monochrome.
- 03Click any swatch in the palette to copy its hex code.
About Color Palette Generator
This generator takes one base color and builds four more around it using simple color-wheel rules. Analogous colors sit close together on the wheel, complementary sits opposite, triadic spreads three colors evenly, and monochrome varies only the lightness.
Use it when you need a quick, coherent set of colors for a design, a slide deck, or a website theme and do not want to pick each one by hand. For example, starting from a green base and choosing triadic gives you a balanced three-color set to build a logo around.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a complementary color?
- The color directly opposite the base on the color wheel, which gives the strongest contrast in hue.
- What does monochrome do?
- It keeps the same hue and saturation as your base color and only changes the lightness, giving you tints and shades of one color.
- Can I copy colors as CSS?
- You can copy any swatch as a hex code. Paste it directly into a CSS color property.
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