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Color palette generator, color wheel, WCAG contrast checker, color blindness simulator, tint & shade generator and font pair finder. Essential tools for designers, developers and anyone working with color.
Color Decisions Deserve More Than a Guess
Picking colors by eye works right up until a design has to actually be consistent — a button that's slightly the wrong shade of a brand's green, text that reads fine on one monitor and fails contrast on another, a palette that looked balanced until someone with color blindness couldn't tell two states apart. Design decisions like these benefit from an actual answer instead of a confident guess, which is what this smaller, focused category exists to provide — six color tools built around real color theory and accessibility standards, plus a font-pairing tool for the typography side of the same problem. None of these need a design account or plugin to run — they're meant to sit open in a second tab while working in whatever program actually holds the design, ready the moment a color question comes up mid-project rather than requiring a separate trip out to check.
Building and Understanding a Palette
Color Palette Generator builds out a full palette from one base color using actual color theory relationships — complementary, analogous, triadic and more — and hands back every value in HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK so the same palette works across CSS, a design tool like Figma, and print. Color Wheel makes those same relationships visible and interactive rather than something to memorize, and Tint & Shade Generator extends a single base color into a full light-to-dark scale, exactly the kind of systematic range a real design system needs instead of five disconnected colors that happen to look related. Color Name Finder solves a smaller, oddly common problem — putting an actual name to a HEX value when a designer or a client refers to a color by name instead of a code.
Accessibility and Typography
Color Contrast Checker calculates WCAG AA and AAA contrast ratios instantly, which turns accessibility compliance from a rule to look up into a number to hit — adjust either color until the ratio clears the bar, rather than guessing whether text is legible enough. Color Blindness Simulator previews a design the way roughly 8% of men with red-green color blindness would actually see it, which matters most for interfaces that lean on color alone to signal something like an error or a success state, since that signal disappears entirely for anyone who can't distinguish the colors in the first place. Font Pair Finder rounds out the category on the typography side, curating heading-and-body font combinations that are already known to work together instead of a random guess between two fonts that happen to both look nice individually.
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