Color Palette Generator
Discover flexible random palettes, protect the colors that work and refine the remaining swatches without losing your progress.
Need colors based on color theory? Use the Color Harmony Generator to create complementary, analogous, triadic and other harmonious combinations.
How to use Color Palette Generator
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Set the palette to contain between three and ten colors, then click Generate palette or press Space outside a form control.
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Lock any swatch you want to preserve before generating another variation.
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Click a HEX label to edit that color directly, or use the copy control on an individual swatch.
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Drag swatches to reorder them, use the arrow controls for precise movement and Undo or Redo recent changes.
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Copy the finished palette as a newline-separated HEX list or as numbered CSS variables.
Frequently asked questions
About Color Palette Generator
Creative palette work rarely follows a straight line. Color Palette Generator supports iteration: generate an initial direction, lock the convincing swatches, regenerate the rest and reshape the sequence until the combination feels useful.
Every color remains editable and movable. Drag controls make broad rearrangement quick, keyboard-friendly arrows provide exact ordering, and a history stack makes experimentation reversible. The palette can grow or shrink within practical limits without unexpectedly removing a protected swatch.
Generation uses cryptographically sourced browser randomness when available, but the result is a design suggestion rather than an accessibility guarantee. Finished values can be copied individually, as a simple list or as CSS custom properties for immediate implementation.