Alternatives to Coolors
Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Coolors
Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Coolors.
Adobe Color
A free web tool from Adobe for building color palettes from harmony rules, images and accessibility checks.
Adobe Color is fully free and adds harmony rules, image palette extraction, a WCAG contrast checker and color blindness simulation, all inside Adobe's web tool.
Paletton
A long-running web color scheme designer built around a color wheel and classic harmony rules.
Paletton is a free, ad-supported color wheel designer with harmony models, WCAG contrast checks and export to CSS, LESS, Photoshop ACO and GIMP GPL.
Khroma
AI color tool that learns your preferences and generates personalized palettes.
Khroma is free and uses an AI that learns your preferences to suggest palettes, but it needs an initial training step before it becomes useful.
Realtime Colors
A web tool that previews a color palette and font pairing on a realistic page layout as you edit it.
Realtime Colors is free and previews your palette on a full sample website, exporting to CSS, Tailwind and framework presets, with contrast checking in the toolbar.
Color Hunt
A curated web gallery of color palettes, updated daily, with a companion Chrome extension.
Color Hunt is a free curated gallery of hand-picked four-color palettes with a Chrome extension, but it has no color-wheel or harmony generator.
ColorSpace
A web tool that generates matching color palettes and gradients from a single color.
ColorSpace is free and generates many palettes and gradients from one input color, with fewer controls and no mention of contrast checks.
Huemint
A web color palette generator that uses machine learning to create schemes for brands and websites.
Huemint is free and uses machine learning to generate palettes previewed on brand and website mockups, with less predictable results than Coolors.
ColorKit
A free collection of web tools for generating color palettes and gradients, plus palette inspiration.
ColorKit is a free palette generator with a large gallery of palettes, with no paid tier but little published detail about its tools.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Coolors as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Atmos
A web-based color palette generator for UI designers, with shade scales and accessibility checks.
Coolors focuses on fast palette generation with keyboard shortcuts and a large shared community, while its paid plan locks some features, similar to Atmos's freemium model.
Color Designer
A suite of web tools for building palettes, gradients, shades and converting color codes.
Coolors focuses on fast keyboard-driven palette generation with a large community gallery, and is also freemium with some features on a paid plan.
Color Leap
A web app for browsing 180 color palettes drawn from art and culture across 4000 years.
Coolors combines a large community palette gallery with a fast generator, though some features require a paid plan.
Color Supply
An interactive web color wheel for building harmonious palettes and previewing them on sample shapes.
Coolors generates palettes quickly with keyboard shortcuts and a community library instead of a color wheel, and locks some features behind a paid plan.
Colorffy
A set of web tools for generating color palettes, shades, gradients and light or dark UI themes.
Coolors focuses on fast palette generation and a community gallery, with some features locked behind a paid plan.
ColorMagic
A free AI color palette generator that builds palettes from keywords, images or hex codes.
Coolors generates palettes quickly with keyboard shortcuts and a large community library, without AI prompts, and puts some features behind a paid plan.
Colormind
A web color palette generator that uses deep learning to produce color schemes in one click.
Coolors offers fast palette generation with color locking via keyboard shortcuts and a community library, with some features on a paid plan.
Flat UI Colors
A web collection of flat design color palettes with one-click copying of color codes.
Coolors adds fast palette generation and a large community library, with some features locked behind a paid plan.
Happy Hues
Curated color palettes shown applied live to an example website UI.
Coolors generates and tweaks palettes quickly with a large community library, but is freemium and shows swatches rather than an example website layout.
Muzli Colors
A web color palette generator with search, collections and previews on sample UI designs.
Coolors offers fast palette generation with keyboard shortcuts and a large community library, with some features locked behind a paid plan.
Palettte App
A web app for creating, editing and remapping color palettes with hue, saturation and value controls.
Coolors lets you tweak palettes quickly with keyboard shortcuts and browse community palettes, with some features behind a paid plan.
Poolors
A web palette generator that suggests color combinations built from the colors designers use least.
Coolors generates palettes quickly with keyboard shortcuts and a large community library, favoring common tastes over rare colors, with some paid features.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Picular
Search-based color tool that finds dominant colors for any word.
WebAIM Contrast Checker
An online checker that tests foreground and background color contrast against WCAG AA and AAA levels.
Canva Color Palette Generator
A free Canva web tool that extracts a color palette from an image you upload.
