Ready to Up Your Color Game?
This free online color scheme generator is a tool for artists, designers, and students. Use our color palette picker to create color harmonies like complementary, triadic, and analogous color schemes from any base color. Use the interactive color wheel to explore color theory, and download your finished schemes as a PNG image for your next project.
Choose your base color or upload a photo to start
You can adjust your base color by clicking directly on the color wheel.
Click a color to generate a scheme:
Color Scheme Generator Features
Understanding color theory is essential for creating compelling art. This interactive color picker helps you move beyond guessing by instantly building palettes based on established principles. Use this interactive color picker to explore triadic, tetradic, and split-complementary schemes and see how different color relationships can change the mood and impact of your work.
Find Your Color Scheme
Begin by picking a single color as your base color. From there you can use the HSL sliders to further customize the base color for your color scheme.
Pick from a Photograph
Do you have a photo that contains your dream color? Upload it and then choose your base color. Your color schemes will generate from there!
Let the Color Scheme Generator Do the Work
Not sure where to start with picking your color? That’s okay! Just hit the “Randomize” button and your color schemes will appear like magic.
Interactive Color Wheel
Give the interactive color wheel a spin if you don’t know the difference between complementary colors and triadic. See the difference in real time as you learn.
Customize Your Results
You can generate one color harmony or several. Simply select “show all schemes” or chose only one. Download your results for future reference.
No Sign-Ins Required
Our color palette picker works directly in your browser, with no downloads or logins required.
From planning a painting to digital illustration, this browser-based color picker tool is ready to help. Whether you need to find complementary colors for your composition or want to build a low-contrast analogous color palette, this tool simplifies the process. features, from the image color extractor to the HSL sliders, work directly in your browser with no logins or downloads required. It’s the perfect resource for art teachers creating class materials or students learning the fundamentals of color.