Color Wheel: Palette Generator

Color Wheel & Palettes is a color wheel and color palette generator for designers, artists and students. Pick a shade you love, choose a color harmony, and the matching hues follow it around the wheel, ready to save, export and test.

Color wheel and color harmony

• Drag the interactive wheel and fine-tune saturation and brightness

• Six color harmony rules: complementary, analogous, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic

• Watch the complementary colors and the whole scheme move with your base color

• Shuffle for a fresh color scheme, or lock the hue to explore its shades

• Type any value as HEX, RGB, HSB, HSL, LAB or LCH, and copy hex color codes with a long press

Color palette generator and library

• Save palettes to your own library and give each one a name

• Browse 50+ curated palettes in 10 categories, from Trending and Nature to Fashion and Mood

• Pull a palette from any photo; the shades are extracted on your device

• Find the nearest RAL Classic and Pantone references for any shade

• Search and favorite palettes, and use any swatch as your new base color

Export for design work

• Hex color codes, RGB values, CSS custom properties, Tailwind config and W3C design tokens

• SVG swatches, Adobe ASE for Illustrator and Photoshop, and Procreate .swatches files

• A shareable palette card for social posts

Gradient maker

• Linear, radial and angular gradients with up to 6 stops

• Export a gradient as CSS, Tailwind or SCSS code, or as a PNG image

Contrast checker and color blind simulator

• WCAG contrast checker with AA and AAA results for normal and large text

• Color blind simulator for protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and more

• A guide to what each hue tends to communicate

Color theory lessons and real-world previews

• Interactive color theory lessons on harmony, contrast, warm and cool tones, and saturation

• Preview a palette on an app screen, a poster, an art canvas and a logo before you commit

Home screen widgets

• Palette of the Day and your latest saved palette, right on your home screen

How it works

1. Drag the color wheel to pick a base color.

2. Choose a harmony rule, such as complementary colors, and adjust saturation and brightness.

3. Save the palette, then export it or check its contrast.

Who it's for

Graphic and UI designers who want a quick color palette generator for a brand color scheme, web developers who need a color contrast checker, illustrators planning a palette, and students who want a color wheel for artists to learn color theory.

Plans and pricing

Some features need Color Wheel Pro, available as a weekly subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Pro adds every harmony rule, unlimited saved palettes, all export formats, real-world previews and the complete accessibility toolkit. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled, and you can manage or cancel them anytime in Google Play.

Pantone and RAL are trademarks of their respective owners; this app is not affiliated with them.