Color Tools Directory

68 free tools · 6 categories

Creation

18 tools
CSS Mesh Gradient Generator

Create blurry, multi-color mesh gradients by dragging color points. Tune blur, blend mode and grain, then copy CSS, Tailwind or SCSS, or download SVG and PNG.

Intermediate
Color Wheel

Pick a color on an interactive HSV color wheel, see ten harmony types as markers, check WCAG contrast and export the palette as CSS, SCSS or JSON.

Beginner
Gradient Generator

Create linear, radial and conic CSS gradients with up to 8 color stops, check text contrast, and export CSS, Tailwind, SCSS, SVG, PNG or JSON.

Intermediate
CSS Variable Theme Generator

Set 13 color roles for light and dark mode, preview them on buttons, cards and alerts, check WCAG contrast, then copy CSS variables, Tailwind or SCSS tokens.

Intermediate
Color Mixer

Blend two to ten colors by weight and copy the mixed color as HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH or CSS color-mix() code. Helps designers and developers find midpoints, tints and shades.

Intermediate
CMYK Color Mixer

Mix CMYK ink percentages, preview the screen and coated-paper print color, check total ink coverage and copy HEX, RGB or HSL values. Built for print designers.

Advanced
Color Harmonies Generator

Generate 11 types of color harmony from one base color in HSL or OKLCH, preview them on a sample interface and export CSS, SCSS, Tailwind, JSON or SVG.

Intermediate
Color Mood Board Generator

Turn a mood or industry into an editable color palette with Google Font pairings, a live UI preview with contrast checks and one-click CSS variables.

Beginner
Ink Marbling Generator

Swirl liquid ink on digital paper and make suminagashi-style marbling art. Choose your inks, flow them with mouse, touch or keyboard, and download a PNG.

Beginner
Duotone Image Filter Generator

Create a two-color duotone effect on any photo in your browser. Pick shadow and highlight colors, compare with the original, then download a PNG or copy the SVG filter and CSS.

Beginner
Color Tint & Shade Scale Generator

Generate an 11-step 50 to 950 tint and shade scale from one base color. Copy CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or JSON tokens and check white and black text contrast for every stop.

Intermediate
Animated Gradient Generator

Create looping CSS animated gradients with 2 to 8 colors, linear or radial type, motion, speed and easing. Copy CSS or Tailwind code, download it or share a link.

Intermediate
Color Palette Randomizer

Press Space to shuffle harmonious 2 to 8 color palettes, lock favorites, and export CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or JSON. Free random color scheme generator for designers and developers.

Beginner
SVG Pattern Background Generator

Build tileable SVG background patterns with custom colors, scale, stroke, rotation and opacity. Copy CSS or a data URI, or download SVG and PNG. Free for designers and developers.

Beginner
CSS Box Shadow Generator

Design CSS box-shadow and text-shadow stacks with sliders and a live preview, then copy CSS, a Tailwind class or an SCSS variable. Built for web designers and developers.

Beginner
Glassmorphism Generator

Build frosted glass cards with adjustable blur, transparency, saturation, border and shadow. Preview on eight backdrops, check text contrast and copy CSS, Tailwind or SCSS.

Beginner
Neumorphism Generator

Design neumorphic soft UI surfaces visually and copy production-ready CSS. Shadows come from one base color, with four shapes and built-in contrast checks.

Beginner
Gradient Text Generator

Create CSS gradient text with custom color stops, angle, fonts and size, check its contrast on your background, and copy CSS, Tailwind, SCSS or HTML.

Beginner

Analysis

13 tools
Palette from Image

Upload, paste or link a photo and get a 3 to 12 color palette with HEX codes, share percentages and contrast badges. Edit, lock and export for designers and developers.

Beginner
Image Color Picker

Upload, paste or link an image, click any pixel and copy its HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK or OKLCH value. Includes a zoom loupe, pixel averaging, WCAG contrast and dominant colors.

Beginner
Compare Colors

Compare two colors side by side and measure the Delta E difference, lightness, chroma and hue shifts and WCAG contrast. Built for designers, developers and brand teams.

Beginner
Color Simulator

Preview one color on buttons, forms, cards, charts and alerts in light and dark mode. Check WCAG contrast, simulate color blindness and export CSS variables.

Intermediate
Color Scene Studio

Paint a door, dress, armchair, van and phone case photo in any color with shadows and highlights intact. Helps designers, homeowners and brands preview color choices.

Beginner
Color Palette from URL

Extract the main colors from any public website or image URL as named swatches with HEX, RGB, HSL and WCAG badges, then export as CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or JSON.

Beginner
Color Trend Explorer

Browse the Pantone Color of the Year archive and curated trend palettes for UI, branding and fashion. Copy colors as HEX, RGB or HSL, or export CSS and JSON.

Beginner
Color Distribution Analyzer

Analyze the color distribution of any image with hue, saturation and lightness histograms, dominant colors, color families and tonal balance. Export the report as JSON or PNG.

Advanced
Brand Colors from URL

Paste any public website URL to extract its brand colors as a ranked, editable HEX palette. Export CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or JSON. Built for designers and developers.

Intermediate
Color Legibility Analyzer

Check whether text is readable on its background with WCAG 2 ratios, APCA Lc scores, a type scale preview and fix suggestions. Built for designers, developers and accessibility reviewers.

Advanced
Dominant Color Extractor

Upload an image to find its dominant colors with HEX, RGB, names and coverage percentages. Export CSS, JSON or PNG for palettes, branding and UI themes.

Beginner
Color Scheme Stealer

Extract a color scheme from any image or screenshot. Get 6 to 10 named dominant colors, assign background, text, primary and accent roles, and export CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or JSON.

Beginner
Color Emotion & Psychology Guide

An interactive color psychology guide with emotions, cultural meanings, branding examples and contrast checks for 11 color families. Helps designers and marketers choose colors.

Beginner

Conversion

12 tools
Color Converter

Convert any color between HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, HWB, CMYK, OKLCH and Lab, edit channels, check contrast on white and black, and export CSS, JSON or Tailwind code.

Beginner
HEX to HSL Converter

Convert HEX codes to HSL with classic, modern and exact 1-decimal syntax. Adjust sliders, build a lightness scale and export CSS, SCSS or JSON for your designs.

Beginner
HEX to HSV Converter

Free online HEX to HSV converter. Turn any 3, 4, 6 or 8 digit HEX code into hue, saturation and value (HSB) and copy matching RGB and HSL values.

Beginner
OKLCH to HEX Converter

Convert OKLCH colors to HEX, RGB, HSL and Display P3 with live sliders, gamut mapping and WCAG contrast. Built for designers and developers moving to modern CSS.

Advanced
HEX to RGB Converter

Convert HEX color codes (3, 4, 6 or 8 digits) to RGB and RGBA with percentages, HSL, contrast checks and CSS, SCSS or JSON export. Built for designers and developers.

Beginner
HEX to CMYK Converter

Convert HEX codes to approximate CMYK percentages with a total ink coverage check, a print gamut estimate, RGB and HSL values, and CSS or JSON export. Built for print and web designers.

Intermediate
RGB to HEX Converter

Convert RGB and RGBA values to HEX color codes with sliders, a live preview, short and 8-digit HEX output, contrast checks and CSS, JSON or SVG export for designers and developers.

Beginner
Pantone Converter

Free Pantone converter that turns Pantone Solid Coated codes into approximate HEX and RGB, or finds the closest PMS match for any HEX with a ΔE2000 score.

Beginner
RGB to CMYK Converter

Convert RGB or HEX colors to approximate CMYK for print. Shows a gamut warning, total ink coverage and the formula steps for designers, developers and marketers.

Beginner
Color to CSS Named Color

Finds the closest CSS named color for any HEX, RGB or HSL value, scores the match with a perceptual distance, and lists all 148 CSS color keywords to copy.

Beginner
HEX to Design Token Exporter

Name your HEX colors and export them as CSS custom properties, SCSS, Tailwind v4 or v3, DTCG JSON, JavaScript, SwiftUI or Android XML. Built for designers and developers.

Intermediate
HSL to HEX Converter

Free HSL to HEX converter that turns hue, saturation and lightness into HEX and RGB codes with a live preview, alpha support and one-click copy for designers and developers.

Beginner

Accessibility

9 tools
Contrast Checker

Free contrast checker that tests text and background colors against WCAG 2.2 AA and AAA, shows the APCA score and suggests accessible fixes for designers and developers.

Beginner
Color Blindness Simulator

Preview how images and colors look with protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia or achromatopsia, and flag color pairs that become hard to tell apart. Free, in your browser.

Intermediate
Contrast Ratio Checker

Test the WCAG contrast ratio of any two colors with AA and AAA badges, a live UI preview and nearby compliant color suggestions. Built for designers and developers.

Beginner
Color Blindness Test

A free color blindness test with 12 number plates, a 15-cap hue arrangement and vision simulations. Learn how you see color, then copy or download an activity summary.

Beginner
Palette Accessibility Matrix

Test every text and background pair in a color palette for WCAG AA and AAA contrast, see failing pairs with fixes, and export results as CSV, JSON or CSS.

Advanced
Color Blindness Palette Fixer

Simulate a palette under eight color vision types, find pairs that look alike, and auto-fix unlocked colors. Built for designers and developers who need a color blind friendly palette.

Intermediate
Color Safe Palette Builder

Build a full UI palette and test every foreground and background pairing against WCAG AA and AAA contrast, then export CSS, SCSS, JSON or Tailwind code.

Intermediate
Palette Accessibility Audit

Audit up to 10 palette colors against WCAG AA and AAA. Get a contrast matrix, safe text colors per background and same-hue fixes for failing pairs.

Intermediate
Focus Indicator Contrast Checker

Check keyboard focus ring color, width, style and offset against WCAG 2.2 contrast and area rules, with a live Tab preview and CSS output for designers and developers.

Advanced

Advanced

4 tools

Utility

12 tools
Color Name Finder

Find the closest name for any HEX, RGB, HSL or CSS color, with a Delta-E accuracy score and alternative names. Helps designers, developers and writers label colors fast.

Beginner
Color Collaboration Room

Create a color collaboration room, invite teammates with one link, and co-edit a shared palette of up to 20 colors. Export CSS, SCSS, Tailwind or JSON tokens.

Beginner
Daily Color Challenge

A free color guessing game: pick the hex code that matches today's swatch from four options, score points, keep a streak and play unlimited practice rounds.

Beginner
Tailwind Scale Generator

Generate a Tailwind CSS color scale from one base color, check WCAG contrast on every shade and export Tailwind v4, v3, CSS, SCSS or JSON code.

Intermediate
Font Pairing Generator

Pair Google Fonts for headings and body text, preview them on landing page, blog and dashboard layouts with your colors, check WCAG contrast and export CSS.

Intermediate
Closest System Color Finder

Enter any color and get the nearest tokens from CSS named colors, Tailwind, Material Design, Open Color and Bootstrap, ranked by ΔE with contrast ratios. Built for designers and developers.

Beginner
Bulk Color Converter

Paste up to 500 colors in any mix of formats and convert them all to HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, HWB, CMYK or OKLCH. Built for designers and developers who handle color lists.

Beginner
Embeddable Palette Widget

Build a color palette widget with named swatches, then copy plain HTML to embed it on a blog, docs site or portfolio. No scripts, no iframe, no signup.

Beginner
Bootstrap 5 Colors

Reference for Bootstrap 5.3 colors: theme colors, dark mode tokens and 100 to 900 scales with HEX, SCSS and CSS variables, plus a closest-color finder and code export.

Beginner
RAL Classic Colors

Searchable RAL Classic color chart with codes, English names and approximate sRGB HEX. Find the closest RAL match to any HEX and export CSV, JSON, CSS or SCSS.

Beginner
Material Design Colors

Browse the Material Design 2 palette, copy HEX, RGB, CSS variable, SCSS or Android values, and export whole hues. Built for designers and developers.

Beginner
Tailwind CSS Colors

Browse every default Tailwind CSS color with shades 50 to 950. Copy classes, OKLCH, HEX, RGB or CSS variables, compare v4 and v3, and export the palette for your project.

Beginner