The best free color palette generator starts from a color you already have and builds harmonious combinations around it, with hex codes you can copy straight into your project. A browser-based generator produces complementary, analogous and triadic palettes from any base color, free and with no sign-up.
Free color palette generator. Pick a base color and instantly build harmonious palettes (complementary, analogous, triadic) with copyable hex codes.
Open Color Palette Generator → Free toolFree shades and tints generator. Enter a base color and instantly get a full scale of darker shades and lighter tints with copyable hex codes.
Open Color Shades and Tints Generator →Palette sites often optimize for browsing pretty combinations rather than solving your actual problem, which usually starts from a fixed point: a brand color, a photo, a client requirement. The tool you want takes that base color and derives schemes from color theory, and it hands over the hex codes without putting the export behind an account or a paid plan.
The palette generator takes your base color and produces complementary, analogous and triadic combinations with copyable hex codes, which covers accent colors, backgrounds and highlights that actually work together. For UI work, a companion shades and tints tool expands any color into a full scale of darker shades and lighter tints, the raw material for hover states, borders and text hierarchies. Both run entirely in your browser.
Complementary, analogous and triadic palettes derived from any base color you choose.
Yes. Every color in the palette comes with a copyable hex code.
Yes. The shades and tints generator expands a base color into a full scale of darker shades and lighter tints.