Alternatives to Material Palette

A web generator that builds downloadable Material Design color palettes from two colors you choose. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Material Palette

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Material Palette.

  • Material Theme Builder

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Material Theme Builder is Google's official tool and builds a full Material Design 3 scheme from one source color instead of two.

  • UI Colors

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

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    UI Colors generates Tailwind CSS shade scales with UI previews instead of Material palettes, with some features behind a Pro subscription.

  • tints.dev

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    tints.dev generates 11-shade Tailwind CSS scales from one color with an API and shareable URLs, rather than Material Design colors.

  • 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 a five-role palette on a sample site and exports to Material UI and other presets, with a non-commercial repository license.

  • Colorffy

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

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

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Flat UI Colors

    A web collection of flat design color palettes with one-click copying of color codes.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Scale

    A web tool that generates a smooth color scale from a single base color.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Atmos

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

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • Leonardo

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

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

  • Coolors

    Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb