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24 alternatives to Color Palette Pro

In 2023, I tried building dynamic color theming by programmatically rotating HSL values. The results weren't good—garish combinations, inconsistent luminosity, completely unusable for UI work. That kicked off a two-year (sporadic) rabbit hole into color theory like Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color," perceptual color spaces (OKLCH vs sRGB), and effects like Bezold-Brücke. I learned that programmatic palette generation is genuinely hard. Nothing beats a trained eye. But I carried on anyway and made the Color Palette Pro. What it does: It generates 6 palette types (analogous, complementary,…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   I made a new AI colorizer▲472

   Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters. Let me know what you think. You can see some of my results on my reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top

   2022 · palette.fm · its alternatives →

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   Pixelied Color Palette Generator▲259

   Pick, edit & visualize - your free palette generator tool

   2024 · pixelied.com · its alternatives →

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   A Color Palette Generator I Built For My Senior Thesis▲109

   2014 · colormoo.com · its alternatives →

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   Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones▲627

   Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for…

   Aug 2026 · toneyalexander.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Colors.lol – Overly descriptive color palettes▲388

   A fun way to discover interesting color combinations.

   2020 · colors.lol · its alternatives →

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   Actionable Color Palettes▲339

   Collection of 30+ color palettes with preview

   2021 · colorpalettes.colorion.co · its alternatives →

7. 7PC
   Paletter – Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color▲101

   2021 · paletter.app · its alternatives →

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   ColorMagic▲175

   Generate ideal color palettes with the power of AI

   2023 · colormagic.app · its alternatives →

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   palettes & patterns▲81

   Color visualisation app

   2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Material Design Palette Generator▲113

    Get perfect Material Design palettes from any hex color.

    2019 · materialpalettes.com · its alternatives →

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    Color▲229

    Generate, visualize, and document accessible color palettes

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    calcolor.co▲188

    Calculate colors. Share palettes.

    2020 · calcolor.co · its alternatives →

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    pppalette v2▲127

    Your friendly color palette generator

    2022 · fffuel.co · its alternatives →

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    Colour Palette Generator▲72

    Super fast color palette generator based on selected theme

    2022 · colourpalettegenerator.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks▲215

    I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels. Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design. Please share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is…

    May 2026 · paletteinspiration.com · its alternatives →

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    Color Easily▲101

    The easy way to generate a color palette

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Palette Creator▲132

    Creates a color palette from any image.

    2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Paletter▲129

    Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color

    2021 · paletter.app · its alternatives →

19. 19MN
    My Node.js two weekend project. Color palettes from Flickr images.▲159

    2011 · colorapi.com · its alternatives →

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    Color Scheme Generator▲180

    Generates six color schemes based on one selected base color

    2017 · donesmart.com · its alternatives →

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    Colour Palette Generator▲126

    A robust colour scheme generator

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    ColorpaletteAI▲95

    Generate color palettes from website descriptions

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I created a simple website that generates random color palettes▲12

    2016 · randomcolorpalettes.com · its alternatives →

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    colorSS▲98

    Generate random CSS color palettes and get inspired

    2022 · xsgames.co · its alternatives →

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