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Coolors

Picking colors for a project sounds fun until you're staring at a blank palette with decision paralysis. Coolors solves this with a brilliantly simple mechanic: hit the spacebar and it generates a new color palette instantly.

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Is Coolors free?
Freemium. Partly. Coolors has a free plan, with paid plans for more features or usage.
Category
#Design
Website
coolors.co ↗
Coolors
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Picking colors for a project sounds fun until you're staring at a blank palette with decision paralysis. Coolors solves this with a brilliantly simple mechanic: hit the spacebar and it generates a new color palette instantly. Lock the colors you like, regenerate the rest, and within 30 seconds you have a cohesive color scheme that doesn't look like it was chosen by a random number generator.

Main Features

  • Instant Palette Generation: Hit the spacebar and get a fresh five-color palette instantly. Lock colors you like and regenerate the others around them for rapid iteration.
  • Image Color Extraction: Upload any photo or image and Coolors extracts a harmonious palette from it. Great for building brand colors from mood boards or product photography.
  • Community Palette Library: Explore thousands of community-curated palettes organized by theme, mood, and style. Save your favorites to collections for later reference.
  • Color Blindness Simulation: Preview your palette through different types of color vision deficiency to ensure your designs are accessible to everyone.
  • Multi-Format Export: Export palettes as CSS, SCSS, SVG, PDF, PNG, and more with a single click. Copy hex codes individually or grab the whole palette at once.
  • Gradient Generator: Create custom gradients with angle controls, color stops, and real-time preview. Export as CSS or download as an image.
  • Contrast Checker: Verify color combinations against WCAG accessibility standards for AA and AAA compliance at different text sizes.
  • Browser Extension and Adobe Plugin: Generate and save palettes directly from your browser or within Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for seamless workflow integration.

Who Should Use It?

  • UI/UX Designers: Designers building brand color systems who need quick, harmonious palette exploration.
  • Web Developers: Developers needing cohesive color themes for projects who don't want to spend hours tweaking hex codes.
  • Graphic Designers: Designers creating marketing materials who need on-brand color combinations fast.
  • Brand Strategists: Brand professionals defining visual identities and exploring color directions for clients.
  • Accessibility Advocates: Designers and developers verifying color contrast compliance before shipping.
  • Illustrators: Artists seeking harmonious color combinations for their illustration work.
  • Students and Educators: People learning color theory and design principles with an intuitive, hands-on tool.