Colour palettes
Palettes worth stealing, sorted by mood.
48 palettes
Palettes chosen rather than generated, four colours each, filtered by the mood you are after — pastel, vintage, neon, earth, night. Click any band to copy its hex, or take all four at once. Each one is also checked for something this kind of gallery normally ignores: whether two of its colours become the same colour for a reader with red-green colour blindness.
How to use it
- Pick a mood, or shuffle for something you were not looking for.
- Click a band to copy that colour, or Copy all four for the set.
- Send one to the generator to lock a colour and build around it.
Why use this tool
Completely private
Everything runs inside your browser. Your files and text are never sent to a server.
Free, with no limits
No sign-up, no watermarks and no cap on how many times you can use it.
Instant results
There is no upload or queue to wait for, so results appear as fast as your device can work.
Works on any device
Runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop. Nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the Safe badge mean?
- That no two colours in the palette collapse into one for a reader with red-green colour blindness, which affects roughly one man in twelve. It is worked out from the colours themselves, not typed in by hand: each one is put through a simulation of how that eye sees it and the results are compared. A palette without the badge is not bad — it is fine for decoration — but do not use it to mean anything, like pass and fail.
- Can I use these commercially?
- Yes, without restriction. A colour is not copyrightable and neither is a list of four of them. Use them in client work, products, anything.
- Why four colours and not five?
- Because four is what you can actually hold in your head and use. Most palette galleries settle on four for the same reason: it is enough for a background, a surface, a text colour and an accent, which is a whole interface.
- How do I build on one?
- Send it to the palette generator with the wand button. It opens with those colours loaded, and from there you can lock the ones you want, reroll the rest and export the result as CSS or Tailwind.
- Are new palettes added?
- These are picked by hand, so the set grows when there is something worth adding rather than on a schedule. There is no voting or submission, which also means there is nothing to sign up for and no account to have.