What is Color Palette Generator?
A colour palette generator creates a set of colours that work well together, giving designers a ready-made scheme to build from. This tool produces five colours at a time, shows their HEX codes, and lets you lock any colours you like before regenerating the rest — so you can evolve a palette until it feels right.
Clicking a swatch copies its HEX code instantly, ready to drop into CSS, a design tool or a brand guide.
How to Use the Color Palette Generator
- Click Generate Palette to create five random colours.
- Lock any colours you want to keep with the padlock icon.
- Generate again to refresh only the unlocked colours.
- Click a swatch to copy its HEX code.
Features of Our Color Palette Generator
- Generates five-colour palettes instantly
- Lock individual colours while refreshing others
- Automatic readable-text contrast on each swatch
- One-click HEX copying
- Unlimited regeneration for inspiration
- Works fully offline
Benefits & Use Cases
Designers and developers overcome colour block, brand builders explore schemes, and hobbyists find combinations for slides, sites and artwork. The lock feature makes it easy to keep a favourite base colour while exploring companions.
Because it runs in your browser, you can iterate endlessly and instantly without any sign-up.
The Color Palette Generator is completely free, needs no sign-up or installation, and runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded to a server, so your data stays private. It works on desktop, tablet and mobile, in light or dark mode.
Tips & Best Practices
Lock the colours you like with the padlock, then regenerate to explore companions around them — the fastest way to evolve a scheme from a single brand colour. Click any swatch to copy its HEX code; the tool automatically shows black or white text so the code stays readable on every background.
Turn a favourite palette into a gradient with the CSS Gradient Generator, convert any HEX to RGB with the Hex ⇄ RGB Converter, or lift a starting colour from a photo using the Color Picker from Image.
FAQ about Color Palette Generator
How do I keep a colour I like?
Click the padlock icon on a swatch to lock it. Locked colours stay put when you generate a new palette, so only the others change.
How do I copy a colour code?
Click anywhere on a swatch (except the padlock) to copy its HEX code straight to your clipboard.
Can I use these palettes commercially?
Yes. Colours cannot be copyrighted, so any palette you generate is free to use in personal or commercial projects.
Why does the text colour change?
The tool automatically shows black or white text depending on each colour's brightness, so the HEX code always stays readable.