Alternatives to ColorKit
A free collection of web tools for generating color palettes and gradients, plus palette inspiration. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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ColorKit
A free collection of web tools for generating color palettes and gradients, plus palette inspiration.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ColorKit.
Coolors
Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.
Coolors offers fast keyboard-driven generation and a large community gallery, though some features are locked behind a paid plan.
Colorffy
A set of web tools for generating color palettes, shades, gradients and light or dark UI themes.
Colorffy adds light and dark UI theme generators, a color mixer and CSS exports to palette and gradient tools and curated galleries.
Color Designer
A suite of web tools for building palettes, gradients, shades and converting color codes.
Color Designer adds image extraction, a contrast checker and a code converter, but shows ads on the free tier and needs Pro for unlimited saving.
Adobe Color
A free web tool from Adobe for building color palettes from harmony rules, images and accessibility checks.
Adobe Color generates palettes from harmony rules and images, with contrast checking and color blindness simulation, on the web only.
ColorMagic
A free AI color palette generator that builds palettes from keywords, images or hex codes.
ColorMagic generates palettes from keywords, images or hex codes with AI, plus a color mixer and CSS gradient generator.
ColorSpace
A web tool that generates matching color palettes and gradients from a single color.
ColorSpace generates palettes and gradients of up to three colors from a single input color, with very few controls.
Color Hunt
A curated web gallery of color palettes, updated daily, with a companion Chrome extension.
Color Hunt offers a hand-curated gallery of four-color palettes and a Chrome extension, but no color-wheel or harmony generator.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ColorKit as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Color Leap
A web app for browsing 180 color palettes drawn from art and culture across 4000 years.
ColorKit provides a large palette gallery with hex codes and adds a free palette generator for creating new palettes.
Flat UI Colors
A web collection of flat design color palettes with one-click copying of color codes.
ColorKit pairs a large palette gallery with hex codes and a free palette and gradient generator, so it goes beyond fixed palettes.
Huemint
A web color palette generator that uses machine learning to create schemes for brands and websites.
ColorKit offers a free palette generator plus a large gallery of palettes with hex codes, with little detail about how its tools work.
Muzli Colors
A web color palette generator with search, collections and previews on sample UI designs.
ColorKit combines a free palette generator with a large gallery of palettes and hex codes, without UI mockup previews.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Happy Hues
Curated color palettes shown applied live to an example website UI.
WebGradients
A free collection of 180 ready-made CSS gradients with a generator for building your own.
uiGradients
A community-contributed web collection of color gradients, each with CSS you can copy.
Khroma
AI color tool that learns your preferences and generates personalized palettes.
