Coolors

Practical workflows to build, test, recolor, and share palettes with Coolors
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Start your next design sprint by opening Coolors and building a palette around one anchor shade. Drop in your brand’s primary, lock it, then press the generator to explore matches guided by color harmony rules. Tweak hue, saturation, and brightness on the fly; rename swatches, set how many you need, and arrange them by drag-and-drop until the order fits your UI or print workflow. When you’re set, export your colors as CSS variables, SCSS, JSON tokens, or Adobe/ASE for creative suites. If you design in Figma, sync the palette with the plugin so your swatches appear as local styles, ready for components and auto-layout. Use custom layouts to preview buttons, backgrounds, and states, and rely on the rules-based engine to auto-propose alternatives if you change the base color late in the process.

Turning photos into palettes takes seconds. Upload a product shot, mood image, or screenshot and sample the key tones with the photo picker. Lock the winners, refine the rest, and generate tints and shades for hover states, borders, and shadows. If you need illustrations to match, use the recolor tool to swap fills in your SVGs to your new scheme without opening a separate editor. Batch export assets for the web or print in the sizes and formats your team needs. Build a quick moodboard or collage to validate direction with stakeholders; drop in imagery, premium icons, and your new swatches to show how the colors behave across hero areas, cards, and text blocks. Share a view-only link or a downloadable package so marketing, product, and dev can review the same source of truth. more

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Features

  • Palette builder with lock, harmony rules, and HSL adjustments
  • Large gallery of ready-to-use color sets
  • Photo-based color sampling
  • Accessibility contrast testing (WCAG)
  • SVG recoloring and batch export
  • Gradient editor and library
  • Moodboard and collage creation
  • Figma plugin sync and Chrome extension
  • Mobile capture and sync
  • Customizable layout previews and drag-and-drop ordering
  • File sharing with links and packaged exports
  • Rules-based auto-generation for rapid iterations

How It’s Used

  • Create a brand palette, lock the primary, and export tokens for dev and design
  • Extract colors from product photos and recolor SVG illustrations to match
  • Validate WCAG contrast for buttons and body text, then save approved pairs
  • Sync swatches to Figma and apply them to components and styles
  • Use the Chrome extension to grab colors from competitor sites for analysis
  • Design gradients for social posts and export images sized for Instagram
  • Assemble a collage to present color direction to clients and stakeholders
  • Organize palettes by project, version them, and share links with the team

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Coolors

Free

Generate your palettes
Color picker
Create a collage
Create a gradient
Contrast checker

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