The professional color palette generator designed to help designers and developers create beautiful, accessible color schemes in seconds.
Color theory has a reputation for being hard to get into. We don't think it should be. PaletteGen started as a simple idea: what if picking colors was something anyone could do well, not just people who spent years studying design? Whether you're building your first website or you're a senior designer who just wants to move faster, the tool works the same way.
Picking colors used to mean opening a color wheel, second-guessing every choice, and testing combinations until something clicked. Now it takes one keystroke. Hit the spacebar, get a palette.
About 1 in 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency. If your design only works for people who see color the same way you do, you've already cut out a big chunk of your audience. The WCAG checker and color blindness simulator are built in, so you can catch those problems before anyone else does.
Most color tools give you output and leave you guessing why it works. We'd rather explain it. Every harmony mode has a real reason behind it, and once you understand why complementary colors create tension or why analogous schemes feel calm, you stop guessing and start choosing. Dig into the color theory guide if you want the full breakdown.
No subscription, no account, no email signup. Everything, including gradient generation, color blindness simulation, and PNG/SVG export, is free. We built it this way on purpose and we plan to keep it that way.
More than any competitor, giving you maximum creative control
Hand-picked color schemes across 6 categories for instant inspiration
Share palettes with a link—no database, no registration needed
Upload photos and extract dominant colors automatically
Create beautiful CSS gradients with adjustable angles
PNG, SVG, CSS, SCSS, JSON—ready for any workflow
Good design tools should get out of your way. If you need to watch a tutorial before you can use it, something went wrong at the design stage. PaletteGen should be figured out in under a minute.
Inclusive design isn't a selling point, it's just good work. The tools are there because they should be, and they're tested against the same WCAG standards we talk about in the education section.
Your palettes live in your browser, not on our servers. We don't track what you create, and we're not selling anything about your usage to anyone. It's a design tool, not a data product.
We're constantly adding features based on user feedback. Have an idea? Let us know—we're listening.
About the Founder
PaletteGen was built by Cedrick Reese, a retired veteran and web developer. His background spans affiliate marketing and niche site development since the early 2000s, a Computer Systems Technician certificate from UEI College, Electro-Mechanical Technologies from Tulsa Welding School, and a Carpentry program certificate from Florida State College at Jacksonville. When he's not building web tools, he's building furniture the old-fashioned way.