What Is This Tool?

Choosing the right colors can make or break a design. A website, mobile app, logo, or brand identity instantly feels professional when colors are balanced. But creating a perfect palette manually takes time and can be frustrating.

That’s where the Free Color Palette Generator comes in.

You simply pick a base color (your main brand or project color), and the tool automatically creates matching palettes using proven color harmony rules — such as complementary, monochromatic, analogous, triadic, and tetradic.

It’s like having a professional color theorist in your pocket.

Why Is It Important?

• For Designers: Saves hours of guesswork and ensures a visually balanced design.
  
• For Developers: Makes it easier to generate ready-to-use HEX or RGB values for front-end work.
  
• For Brands: Maintains consistency across digital and print materials.
  
• For Beginners: Removes confusion — no need to memorize complex color wheel theories.

How It Works (Step-by-Step)

1. Select a base color
   
   • Example: You choose #3498db (a blue shade).
     
2. Pick a harmony rule
   
   • Monochromatic: Shades/tints of the same blue.
     
   • Complementary: Blue + its opposite on the color wheel (orange).
     
   • Analogous: Blue + colors next to it (teal and violet).
     
   • Triadic: Three colors equally spaced (blue, red, yellow).
     
   • Tetradic: Four colors forming a rectangle on the wheel (blue, orange, green, red).
     
3. The tool generates a palette
   
   • Instantly gives you HEX, RGB, and preview swatches.
     
4. Copy or export
   
   • Copy HEX/RGB values or export the palette for use in your code, design software, or branding kit.
     

Formula

The generator is based on color wheel math and Hue-Saturation-Lightness (HSL) manipulation.

• Complementary: Hue ± 180°
  
• Analogous: Hue ± 30°
  
• Triadic: Hue ± 120°
  
• Tetradic: Hue ± 90° and Hue ± 180°
  
• Monochromatic: Same hue, adjusted saturation & brightness
  

This ensures palettes are not random but mathematically balanced.