Color Inspiration and Color Tools
A curated collection of the best color inspiration and tools for designers and creatives. Explore palettes, combinations, gradient inspiration, color pickers, and tools for managing color libraries and color systems for digital product design.
Color Inspiration & Color Combinations
Hand-picked color palettes, color combinations and color schemes drawn from design trends, nature, art and history, for brand, web and graphic design projects.
Color Hunt
Free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes.Free
Picular
Works like google but the results are colors.Free
Color Leap
Take a leap through time and see the colors of history.Free
ColorDrop
Color palette inspiration for creatives.Free
Design Seeds
For all who love colors.Free
Tone
A source of inspiration for creating color palettes rooted in nature.Free
SchemeColor
Discover thousands of beautiful color schemes made by professionals.Free
Duo
Collection of color combinations to inspire your next design.Free
Colorsinspo
All in one resource for finding everything about colors.Free
Colors.lol
Overly descriptive color palettes.Free
Color Selector
A database of colors and images for trend forecaster and designers.Free
Palitra
Just google your color palette.Free
RandomA11y
Discover random, accessible color combinations on a real-time color playground.Free
Meditations in Color
Curated archive of artists color palettes across history.Free
Storied Colors
A reference of named colors paired with their documented history.Free
Hexful
Browse color palettes, combinations, and gradients for inspiration.Free
Color Palette Tools & Generators
Color palette generators that build a scheme from a seed color, an uploaded image, color harmony rules or AI suggestions, with export to CSS, design tools and brand libraries.
CoolorsAffiliate Partner
Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.Freemium
Adobe Color
Create color themes, explore color inspiration and find color trends.Free
Pantone Connect
Design with 15,000 Pantone® colors. Convert to Pantone codes. Create and save custom palettes.Free Trial
Khroma
Discover, search, and save color combos and palettes powered by AI.Free
Colormind
AI powered color combinations based on your preferences.Free
ColorSpace
Generate nice color palettes.Free
Paletton
A color scheme designer.Free
Subcolor
Subcolor is a tool to generate colors between two colors.Free
Muzli Colors
Create beautiful color schemes that works.Free
ColorKit
Blends colors and generates a color's shades and tints.Free
Poline
An enigmatic color palette generator, that harnesses the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates.Free
Palette Hunt
A quintessential ally for designers and color enthusiasts alike.Paid
Color Fuse AI
Let AI decide the right colors for your design projects.Freemium
Colorffy
Color tools for UI themes, palettes and gradients with CSS export.Freemium
Color Studio
OKLCH palette tool for balanced interface colors, scales and chart previews.Free
Color Libraries & Color System Tools
Systematic color tooling for UI design: color scale and ramp generators, OKLCH and HSLuv editors, Tailwind-style palettes and accessible color systems that keep tokens consistent across products and design systems.
ColorBox
Open-source color tool to produce various color sets using algorithms.Free
Material Design Color System
Create accessible, personal color schemes communicating your product's hierarchy, state, and brand.Free
Harmonizer
Color palette generator for UI.Free
Scale
A generative way to create color scales.Free
Open Color
Open-source color scheme optimized for UI elements.Free
Huey
Rapid color palettes across the rainbow.Free
Goodpalette
Make beautiful color palettes for UI.Free
Atmos
Create better UI color palettes with ease.Free Trial
Supa Palette
The ultimate color palette generator for Figma.Paid
Hue.tools
An open source toolbox for colors.Free
InclusiveColors
Creates custom Tailwind-style color palettes with WCAG accessibility built-in.Free
Leonardo
A one-of-a-kind tool for creating, managing, and sharing accessible color systems.Free
Supa Colors
Professional color system builder with WCAG accessibility checks.Freemium
Alphredo
Generate translucent (alpha) colors looking the same as their opaque counterparts.Free
Colorca
Design an accessible color palette for digital products in HSLuv color space.Free
Kolors
Color palette generator for design systems.Free
Color Designer
A comprehensive color tools platform.Free + Paid
Color Pal
A tool for selecting color palettes for design systems.Free
Colorspace
A tool for generating consistent and predictable color swatches.Free
Color Ramp
Create accessible color ramps in less than 5 seconds, no BS.Free
Volume
A professional 3D OKLCH color picker and procedural palette generatorFree
Kigen Color Generator
Create shades for your next design system with style.Free
Radix Colors
Open-source color system with accessible scales for light and dark mode.Free
Colors in Context
Preview a color palette on real interfaces, UI components and page layouts before committing to it, so a website color scheme can be judged in context.
Happy Hues
Curated colors in context.Free
Realtime Colors
Visualize your color choices on a real website.Free
UI Colors
Create and visualize Tailwind colors on all sorts of components, gradients, charts and logos.Free + Paid
Huemint
Use machine learning to create unique color schemes for your brand, website or graphic.Free
Palettemaker
Create and test drive color palettes on real design examples.Free
Gradient Inspiration Resources
Curated gradient collections and gradient generators for backgrounds, UI and typography, ready to copy as CSS gradients or mesh gradients.
Grabient
Beautiful gradient inspiration.Free
CoolHue 2.0
Cool color gradients to copy and paste. Also available as a sketch plugin.Free
Gradient Hunt
A free and open platform for color inspiration.Free
Design Gradients
Free gradients curated by designers to use anywhere you want.Free
WebGradients
A free collection of 180 linear gradients.Free
CSS Gradient
Free css gradient generator tool, that lets you create colorful gradient backgrounds.Free
Ingradients
Hand-picked mesh gradients for your next design project.Free + Paid
Gradientos
Hand-picked CSS gradients on UI elements.Free
AnyGradient
Gradient generator with OKLCH, noise and multi-platform export.Free
Color Picker
Native color picker apps and browser extensions for sampling any pixel on screen, keeping a color history and organizing swatches, on macOS, Windows and in the browser.
System Color Picker
The familiar color picker supercharged.Free
ColorSlurp
The ultimate color picker for Mac users.Freemium
Sip
A professional color picker which allows you to collect, organize, edit and share colors on mac.Free Trial
Roy
A tiny & delightful color picker for designers.Paid
ColorZilla
A browser extension assisting web devs and graphic designers with color related tasks.Free
Pika
An open-source colour picker app for macOS.Free + Paid
Colorway
Seriously epic browser color tools.Free
Litur
A color picker for the real world.Free Trial
Just Color Picker
Free offline color picker and color editor for Windows.Free
Color Converter
Color converters that translate one color value into HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, OKLCH, Pantone or RAL, with contrast tests, precision controls and support for the long tail of color spaces.
ColorHexa
A free color converter.Free
OKLCH Color Picker
A new way of working with color.Free
Colorizer
Color converter and generator with high precision and contrast test.Free
rgb.to
Convert colors between HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, RAL, HSL, HSB, and more.Free
color-space
Open-source library that converts between 162 color spaces.Free
Color Contrast & Accessibility Tools
Contrast checkers, color blindness simulators and WCAG accessibility tools for validating color contrast ratios and testing how a palette reads for people with visual impairments.
Who Can Use
Understand how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.Free
Contrast
A Figma plugin and macOS app for quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.Free
Stark
Connects the tools you and your team already use in a streamlined end-to-end accessibility workflow.Freemium
Accessible Brand Colors
A tool that shows you how ADA compliant your colors are in relation to each other.Free
Button Buddy
Ensuring accessible contrast for buttons.Free
Colour Contrast Checker
Check the contrast between different colour combinations against WCAG standards.Free
Color Review
A tool for exploring and finding accessible colors.Free
Colour Contrast Analyser
Free color contrast checker tool to easily determine the contrast ratio of two colors.Free
Sim Daltonism
Visualize colors as they are perceived with various types of color blindness.Free
Accessible Color Matrix
A tool to help designers build color palettes with combinations that conform with accessibility standards.Free
Contrast Plugin
Check the contrast ratios of colors as you work in Figma.Free
Accented
A frontend library for continuous accessibility testing and issue highlighting.Free
Polypane
Browser that shows a site in several viewports at once and audits accessibility.Free Trial
OddContrast
A color contrast checker with Oklch, Oklab, P3, and more.Free
DevAlly
AI-powered platform for product accessibility compliance.Freemium
Omi A11Y
Free Chrome extension for instant WCAG accessibility scanning.Free
Books on Color Theory, Meaning & Practice
Books on color theory, color harmony and the cultural meaning of color, from classic studies of color interaction to practical palette guides for graphic designers and illustrators.
The Complete Color Harmony, Pantone Edition: Expert Color Information for Professional ResultsAffiliate Partner
Leatrice EisemanPaid
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and SymbolismAffiliate Partner
John GagePaid
The Secret Lives of ColorAffiliate Partner
Kassia St. ClairPaid
Interaction of ColorAffiliate Partner
Josef AlbersPaid
Palette Perfect for Graphic Designers and Illustrators: Colour Combinations, Meanings and Cultural ReferencesAffiliate Partner
Sara CaldasPaid