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Website Color Palette Generator
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Generate professional website color palettes instantly. Get matching color schemes, HEX and RGB codes, and design suggestions for your web projects.
Supports hexadecimal color codes, e.g., #2563eb or #36f. You can also select a color directly using the color picker on the left.
Pairs the base color with its opposite on the color wheel. Creates strong contrast and visual impact, ideal for highlighting buttons and accent elements.
:root {
--color-primary: #2463eb;
--color-secondary: #ebac24;
--color-background: #c1d0f1;
--color-accent: #c98f13;
--color-text: #272b35;
}primary: #2463eb
secondary: #ebac24
background: #c1d0f1
accent: #c98f13
text: #272b35This is an example paragraph to demonstrate the overall appearance of body text, background, and buttons with the current color scheme.
Card content to show how secondary, background, and text colors appear in a small module.
Overview
Understand what the tool solves, how it works, and the boundaries of its data.
Enter a three- or six-digit HEX color, use the color picker, or choose a random seed. The generator returns five candidate roles—primary, secondary, accent, background, and text—with HEX, RGB, and HSL values. It also offers a palette preview and copyable plain-text and CSS-variable snippets. A valid three-digit HEX value is expanded to six digits for the generated palette.
The role names are starting points for a design, not rules about where a color must appear. The preview helps you see the five values together, but the generator does not inspect your website or apply a finished design system.
Choose complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split-complementary, or monochromatic. The generator converts the seed to HSL and adjusts hue, saturation, and lightness according to the selected relationship. For example, complementary places a secondary hue 180 degrees from the seed; analogous uses nearby hues; triadic uses three hue directions; and monochromatic keeps a related hue while varying lightness. The background and text roles also receive separate saturation or lightness adjustments.
HSL represents a color using hue, saturation, and lightness. Equal hue-angle steps are a construction rule, not a promise that colors will look equally different to every viewer or on every display. The resulting values are candidates to compare in the actual layout.
Guide
Follow the workflow and verify inputs and outputs with practical examples.
Enter a valid HEX color with three or six hexadecimal digits, with or without a leading #, or select a color with the picker.
Select one of the six color relationships. The five role colors and preview update from the current seed.
Inspect the role labels and HEX, RGB, and HSL values. Check the combinations in the context where you plan to use them.
Copy an individual value, the plain-text list, or the CSS custom properties. The reset control returns to the default blue seed and complementary relationship.
If entered text is not a valid three- or six-digit HEX value, it is not applied as the seed. Use the picker or correct the value, then review the resulting colors again before copying.
Use cases
See how the tool fits into real work and everyday tasks.
A designer with a chosen brand color can compare analogous and complementary directions, then test promising options in a real page layout.
A team can copy the CSS variables as a handoff draft and map the role names to its own component and naming conventions.
Use the preview to see how primary, accent, background, and text colors interact, then adjust for the content and controls actually on screen.
Q&A
Find concise answers to common questions and confusing cases.
No. It generates colors but does not calculate contrast or certify accessibility. WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 1.4.3 generally calls for a 4.5:1 contrast ratio for ordinary text and 3:1 for large text, with specified exceptions. Check the actual foreground and background pair in context.
This page takes one seed color at a time. It does not offer image extraction or a multi-seed palette input.
You can copy a role's HEX value, the plain-text palette, or a CSS-variable block. The displayed details also show RGB and HSL values for each generated color.
Notes
Review scope, result limitations, and important precautions before use.
A harmonious set of hues does not establish text readability or WCAG conformance. The generated background and text roles are suggestions, and the preview is not a contrast test. Check every relevant text, control, focus, and state combination in the actual interface and against the requirements that apply to your project.
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