25 Free Color Tools, Apps and Palette Generators

The marvelous thing about color in design is you have the choice from an infinite number of possibilities and combinations. On the flip side to that, having endless color possibilities makes it difficult to lock down the perfect color scheme or palette for your project.

In this collection, we have gathered 25 completely free tools, apps, and generators to help you find, manage, and create beautiful color schemes.

Found Color

A gallery that explores the beauty of “accidental” color schemes.

ColorDesigner

A tool for easily generating great color palettes.

Accessible Brand Colors

A tool to check the ADA accessibility of your color scheme.

Palette App

A tool for building, analyzing and editing smooth color palettes.

Polarite

Generate color schemes with the help of A.I.

Hue

A collection of free, hand-picked color palettes.

PALX

An automatic UI color palette generator.

ColorBox

A tool to create progressive color sets.

Trendy Palettes

A curated collection of handmade color palettes.

Picular

A search engine for colors.

Fast Average Color

A library that calculates the average color of images and videos.

Scale

A simple tool for generating color scales.

Color Picker Plus

An improved color picker for macOS.

Khroma

The AI color tool for designers.

Random Material Palette Generator

A tool to create three color palettes just with a click.

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Ever wonder what real words are also valid CSS HEX colors? Someone has figured it out.

Stark

A color-blind simulator and contrast checker for Sketch.

Colormind

A deep learning AI that knows color theory. It can generate color palettes from scratch, or it can take your input and intelligently fill in the blanks.