Color Palette Generators and Scale Tools

Palette generators, tint and shade builders and perceptual color pickers. Use them to pick brand colors, build accessible UI scales and preview a palette on real layouts.

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pigment.shapefactory.co

A playful palette maker that builds color pairs from saturation and lightness.

Colors Free
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maketintsandshades.com

Generate tints and shades of any color to build out your design system's palette.

Colors Free
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radix-ui.com

Generate a full Radix-style color scale from your brand colors and preview it on real UI.

Colors Free

coolors.co

Fast palette generator (spacebar to shuffle) with 10M+ community palettes, image picker, contrast checker and a Figma plugin.

Colors Freemium

realtimecolors.com

Preview a palette and font pairing on a live website layout, check contrast, then export to CSS, Tailwind or Figma.

Colors Free

uicolors.app

Generate Tailwind-style shade scales from a brand hex and preview them on real UI components. Includes a Figma plugin.

Colors Freemium

oklch.com

Evil Martians' OKLCH picker and converter with P3 gamut preview and sRGB fallbacks, for perceptually even palettes.

Colors Free

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