Alternatives to Colorffy

A set of web tools for generating color palettes, shades, gradients and light or dark UI themes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

The original

  • Colorffy

    A set of web tools for generating color palettes, shades, gradients and light or dark UI themes.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Colorffy.

  • Color Designer

    A suite of web tools for building palettes, gradients, shades and converting color codes.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Color Designer offers palette, gradient, shade, image extraction and contrast tools, with ads on the free tier and unlimited saving behind Pro.

  • Realtime Colors

    A web tool that previews a color palette and font pairing on a realistic page layout as you edit it.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Realtime Colors previews light and dark UI color roles on a full sample site and exports to CSS, Tailwind and framework presets, under a non-commercial repository license.

  • ColorKit

    A free collection of web tools for generating color palettes and gradients, plus palette inspiration.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    ColorKit provides free palette and gradient generators with a large palette gallery, without dedicated light and dark theme tools.

  • Material Theme Builder

    Google's web tool for generating Material Design 3 color schemes from a source color.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Material Theme Builder generates a full Material Design 3 scheme from a source color, useful only when following Material Design 3.

  • Atmos

    A web-based color palette generator for UI designers, with shade scales and accessibility checks.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Atmos builds UI color systems with shade scales, semantic status colors and accessibility checks, and is freemium with some features possibly needing an account.

  • Coolors

    Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Coolors focuses on fast palette generation and a community gallery, with some features locked behind a paid plan.

  • Adobe Color

    A free web tool from Adobe for building color palettes from harmony rules, images and accessibility checks.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Adobe Color generates harmony-based palettes with image extraction, a contrast checker and color blindness simulation, but offers no UI theme generator.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Colorffy as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Color Hunt

    A curated web gallery of color palettes, updated daily, with a companion Chrome extension.

    Colorffy includes curated palettes and gradients to browse alongside generators for palettes, shades and light or dark UI themes.

  • ColorSpace

    A web tool that generates matching color palettes and gradients from a single color.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Colorffy adds shades, a color mixer, light and dark UI theme generators and CSS exports to palette and gradient generation.

  • CSS Gradient

    A free web generator for linear and radial CSS gradient backgrounds, with ready-made examples.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Colorffy adds a gradient generator within a wider set of palette, mixer and UI theme tools, and exports CSS color schemes.

  • Material Palette

    A web generator that builds downloadable Material Design color palettes from two colors you choose.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Colorffy generates complete light and dark UI themes from brand colors and exports CSS color schemes, not tied to Material Design.

  • uiGradients

    A community-contributed web collection of color gradients, each with CSS you can copy.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Colorffy offers curated gradients to browse plus gradient, palette and color mixer tools, with CSS export and light or dark UI theme generators.

  • WebGradients

    A free collection of 180 ready-made CSS gradients with a generator for building your own.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Colorffy includes a gradient generator and curated gradients alongside palette, color mixer and light or dark UI theme tools, exporting CSS color schemes.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • UI Colors

    A web tool that generates Tailwind CSS color shade scales from a base color and previews them.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb
  • tints.dev

    A web palette generator and API that builds 11-shade Tailwind CSS color scales from one base color.

    FreeProprietaryWeb
  • Leonardo

    Adobe's web tool for generating accessible color themes and scales from target contrast ratios.