🎨 Color Palette Generator

Generate beautiful color palettes for your designs. Get hex codes, RGB, HSL values and export as CSS or image.

Palette Type

Base Color

What is the Color Palette Generator?

This tool builds a five-color palette from a single base color you pick, using real color theory rather than guesswork. Choose a scheme type — random, monochromatic, complementary, analogous, triadic, or shades — and it calculates matching hex, RGB, and HSL values for each swatch instantly.

How to Use It

Pick a base color with the color picker, then choose a palette type from the dropdown. The five-swatch preview and the code panel below update immediately. Click any swatch to copy its hex code, or use the buttons to copy the whole palette as CSS custom properties or as JSON for use in code.

When to Use It

Use it when starting a new website or app design and you need a coordinated color scheme, when building a brand style guide, or when you have one brand color and need complementary or analogous shades to round out buttons, backgrounds, and accents without clashing.

Who Benefits

Web designers and front-end developers setting up a project's CSS variables, freelancers pitching mockups to clients, and hobbyists building a personal site all get a usable, theory-backed palette in seconds instead of trial-and-error guessing in an image editor.

Frequently Asked Questions

Complementary colors sit opposite each other on the color wheel and create high contrast, bold combinations — good for calls-to-action and accent colors. Analogous colors sit next to each other and create a calmer, more harmonious look — good for backgrounds and broader UI.

Yes. Use the "Copy as CSS Variables" button to get a ready-to-paste ":root" block with each color as a custom property, or "Copy as JSON" if you're feeding the palette into a design token file or app config.

Both take your base hue and saturation and vary only the lightness, so the colors are technically the same formula — the difference is just the order the swatches are generated in (light-to-dark versus dark-to-light), giving you two ways to preview the same tonal range.