Alternatives to Color Designer
A suite of web tools for building palettes, gradients, shades and converting color codes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Color Designer
A suite of web tools for building palettes, gradients, shades and converting color codes.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Color Designer.
Colorffy
A set of web tools for generating color palettes, shades, gradients and light or dark UI themes.
Colorffy bundles palette, gradient and color mixer tools with light and dark UI theme generators and CSS exports, and is free to start without mentioned ads.
Coolors
Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.
Coolors focuses on fast keyboard-driven palette generation with a large community gallery, and is also freemium with some features on a paid plan.
ColorKit
A free collection of web tools for generating color palettes and gradients, plus palette inspiration.
ColorKit is a free set of palette and gradient tools with a large inspiration gallery, with little detail published about individual tools.
Adobe Color
A free web tool from Adobe for building color palettes from harmony rules, images and accessibility checks.
Adobe Color is free, adds harmony rules and color blindness simulation, and extracts palettes from images, but runs only on the web within Adobe's ecosystem.
ColorMagic
A free AI color palette generator that builds palettes from keywords, images or hex codes.
ColorMagic is free and adds AI palette generation from keywords, plus image extraction, a color mixer and a CSS gradient generator.
Paletton
A long-running web color scheme designer built around a color wheel and classic harmony rules.
Paletton centres on a harmony color wheel with many export formats and WCAG pair checks, but is ad-supported and lacks image extraction.
ColorSpace
A web tool that generates matching color palettes and gradients from a single color.
ColorSpace is free and generates palettes and gradients from one color, but has few controls and no contrast checker or code converter.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Color Designer as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Canva Color Palette Generator
A free Canva web tool that extracts a color palette from an image you upload.
Color Designer offers image palette extraction alongside gradient, shade and contrast tools, but shows ads on the free tier and puts unlimited saving behind Pro.
CSS Gradient
A free web generator for linear and radial CSS gradient backgrounds, with ready-made examples.
Color Designer offers gradients as part of a freemium suite of palette and shade tools, with ads on the free tier.
Image Color Picker
A web tool that picks colors and extracts palettes from uploaded images, pasted screenshots or URLs.
Color Designer includes image palette extraction among several color tools, with ads on the free tier and unlimited saving on Pro.
Palettte App
A web app for creating, editing and remapping color palettes with hue, saturation and value controls.
Color Designer is a freemium suite for palettes, gradients, shades and code conversion, with ads on the free tier and unlimited saved palettes needing Pro.
uiGradients
A community-contributed web collection of color gradients, each with CSS you can copy.
Color Designer is freemium with ads on the free tier and bundles a gradient builder with palette, shade and contrast tools in one website.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Color Hexa
A web color encyclopedia with conversions, schemes, shades and colorblind simulation for any color.
WebAIM Contrast Checker
An online checker that tests foreground and background color contrast against WCAG AA and AAA levels.
Scale
A web tool that generates a smooth color scale from a single base color.
