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Professional Color Tools & Generators

Complete Suite of 11 Free Color Design Tools for Designers, Developers & Marketers

Transform your design workflow with our comprehensive collection of color palette generators, CSS gradient creators, and advanced color scheme tools. Create stunning, accessible color combinations in seconds.

🎨 Color Palette Generators

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Color Palette Generator

Generate harmonious color palettes instantly. Create professional color schemes for any design project with intelligent color theory algorithms.
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Hex Color Palette Generator

Build beautiful palettes from HEX color codes. Input any hex value and generate complementary, analogous, and triadic color schemes.
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Image Color Palette Generator

Extract color palettes from images. Upload any photo and automatically generate matching color schemes for your design projects.
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Website Color Palette Generator

Create website-ready color palettes with primary, secondary, and accent colors. Perfect for web designers and developers building brand identities.

🎭 Color Scheme & Combination Tools

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Color Scheme Generator

Design complete color schemes using proven color theory principles. Generate monochromatic, complementary, split-complementary, and tetradic schemes.
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Color Combination Generator

Discover perfect color combinations for your projects. Explore thousands of harmonious color pairings with accessibility ratings.
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Color Swatch Generator

Create and export professional color swatches for design software. Generate swatch files compatible with Adobe, Sketch, and Figma.

🌈 CSS Gradient Generators

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CSS Gradient Generator

Create stunning CSS gradients with live preview. Generate linear and radial gradients with instant copy-paste CSS code for your websites.
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3-Color CSS Gradient Generator

Build advanced three-color gradients with precise control. Perfect for creating vibrant, multi-stop gradient backgrounds and UI elements.

🚀 Advanced Design Tools

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UI Color Generator

Generate complete UI color systems with automatic shade variations. Create design tokens and color scales for modern user interfaces.
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Color Font Pairing Generator

Match perfect color schemes with typography pairings. Ensure optimal contrast and readability for accessible web design.

How to Use Our Color Tools

  1. Step 1: Choose Your Tool

    Select the color generator that matches your project needs. Use palette generators for brand design, gradient generators for UI elements, or combination tools for exploring color relationships.

  2. Step 2: Input Your Base Color or Image

    Enter a HEX code, upload an image, or use the color picker to select your starting point. Each tool provides intuitive input methods for quick color selection.

  3. Step 3: Generate and Customize

    Click generate to create your color scheme. Fine-tune individual colors, adjust brightness and saturation, or regenerate until you find the perfect combination.

  4. Step 4: Export for Your Project

    Copy HEX codes, RGB values, or CSS code directly to your clipboard. Export color swatches for design software or save palettes for future reference.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a color palette generator and how does it work? +
A color palette generator is a design tool that creates harmonious color schemes based on color theory principles. It uses algorithms to generate complementary, analogous, triadic, or tetradic color combinations from a base color or image. These tools help designers create professional-looking color palettes without extensive color theory knowledge.
How do I create a color scheme for my website using these tools? +
Start with the Website Color Palette Generator or Color Scheme Generator. Input your brand's primary color (usually from your logo) and the tool will generate a complete color scheme including primary, secondary, and accent colors. Use the Color Combination Generator to ensure good contrast ratios for accessibility, then test your scheme with the UI Color Generator to create shade variations for buttons, backgrounds, and text.
What is the difference between a color palette generator and color scheme generator? +
A color palette generator typically creates a broader collection of colors that work well together, often 5-10 shades. A color scheme generator focuses on specific color theory relationships like complementary or triadic schemes with 2-4 core colors. Color palette generators are ideal for brand guidelines and extensive design systems, while color scheme generators are perfect for targeted UI projects and specific color relationships.
Can I generate a color palette from an image? +
Yes, use the Color Palette Generator from Image tool. Upload any photo or graphic, and the tool extracts the dominant colors to create a matching palette. This is perfect for creating brand colors from logos, designing websites based on hero images, or building social media graphics that complement existing photography.
How does the CSS gradient generator work? +
The CSS Gradient Generator creates smooth color transitions using CSS linear-gradient or radial-gradient functions. Select your colors, adjust the angle and position of color stops, and the tool generates production-ready CSS code. The 3-Color CSS Gradient Generator extends this with three-color transitions for more complex gradient effects. Copy the generated code directly into your stylesheets.
What is a hex color palette generator? +
A hex color palette generator creates color schemes starting from hexadecimal color codes (like #FF5733). Input any HEX value and the generator produces complementary colors, shade variations, and harmonious palettes. This tool is essential for developers working with existing brand colors or recreating color schemes from design specifications.
How do I use the UI color generator for design systems? +
The UI Color Generator creates comprehensive color scales with automatic shade variations (typically 50, 100, 200...900). Input your primary brand color and it generates lighter tints and darker shades suitable for backgrounds, borders, hover states, and text. Export these as CSS variables or design tokens for consistent application across your entire design system.
What are color swatches and how do I generate them? +
Color swatches are saved color samples used in design software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, or Figma. The Color Swatch Generator creates exportable swatch files containing your color palette. Save your brand colors as swatches to maintain consistency across all design projects and team members.
How can I ensure my color combinations are accessible? +
Use the Color Combination Generator and Color Font Pairing Generator, which include WCAG contrast ratio checkers. Ensure text-background combinations meet WCAG AA standards (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text) or AAA standards (7:1 for normal text, 4.5:1 for large text). Test your entire palette across different combinations to ensure readability for users with visual impairments.
What is the best color palette generator for web design? +
For web design projects, start with the Website Color Palette Generator which creates web-optimized color schemes. Combine it with the UI Color Generator for design tokens and the CSS Gradient Generator for modern UI elements. Use the Color Font Pairing Generator to ensure proper contrast between text and backgrounds for optimal readability and accessibility compliance.
Can I create a 3-color gradient for my website background? +
Absolutely! The 3-Color CSS Gradient Generator specializes in creating smooth three-color transitions. Select your three colors, adjust their positions along the gradient line, set the angle for linear gradients or center point for radial gradients, and copy the generated CSS code. This creates vibrant, modern backgrounds popular in contemporary web design.
What color theory principles do these generators use? +
Our color generators apply fundamental color theory including complementary colors (opposite on the color wheel), analogous colors (adjacent on the wheel), triadic schemes (three colors equally spaced), tetradic schemes (four colors in two complementary pairs), monochromatic variations (tints and shades of one hue), and split-complementary combinations. These proven principles ensure harmonious, professional-looking color palettes.
How do I export colors from the color palette generator? +
Each color palette generator provides multiple export formats including HEX codes, RGB values, HSL values, and CSS variables. Click the copy button next to individual colors for quick copying, or export the entire palette as CSS code, JSON, or design software swatch files. Some tools also generate downloadable images of your color palette for client presentations.
What is the color font generator used for? +
The Color Font Pairing Generator matches color schemes with complementary typography. It suggests font pairings that work well with your selected colors while ensuring proper contrast ratios for readability. Use this tool when designing websites, presentations, or marketing materials to create cohesive visual hierarchies with harmonious color-typography combinations.
Are these color generators free to use? +
Yes, all 11 color tools and generators on Omni Calculator Space are completely free to use. There are no subscription fees, hidden costs, or usage limits. Generate unlimited color palettes, CSS gradients, and color schemes for personal or commercial projects without any restrictions.

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