How are palette harmonies generated?

The tool converts the base color to HSL and offsets its hue for the selected color-theory relationship. Monochromatic palettes vary lightness instead.

What is the difference between a tint and a shade?

A tint mixes the base color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. They help build surfaces, borders, hover states, and contrast levels.

Does a generated palette guarantee accessible contrast?

No. Harmony describes the relationship between hues, not text contrast. Test the exact foreground and background pair against the contrast requirement for your interface.

Color Palette Generator

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Build harmonious color schemes from any base color — complementary, analogous, triadic and more — with tints, shades, and one-click HEX copy.

Palette

Click any swatch to copy its HEX

Tints & shades

Runs in your browser; files and input stay on this device

About color palettes

A good palette starts from color theory: harmonies are sets of colors at fixed positions around the color wheel that reliably look good together. This generator takes any base color and derives complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, and monochromatic schemes, plus a row of tints and shades for building UI states. Click a swatch to copy its HEX, or grab the whole palette at once. All the color math runs in your browser.

How to use Color Palette Generator

1Enter a base HEX color or generate a random one.
2Choose a complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, or monochromatic harmony.
3Copy an individual swatch, the full palette, or one of the generated tints and shades.

Frequently asked questions

How are palette harmonies generated?: The tool converts the base color to HSL and offsets its hue for the selected color-theory relationship. Monochromatic palettes vary lightness instead.
What is the difference between a tint and a shade?: A tint mixes the base color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. They help build surfaces, borders, hover states, and contrast levels.
Does a generated palette guarantee accessible contrast?: No. Harmony describes the relationship between hues, not text contrast. Test the exact foreground and background pair against the contrast requirement for your interface.