Free colour tools for graphic designers

Colour tools that will help graphic designers generate great colour palettes

Are you struggling to come up with a colour palette for your latest design project. Fear not, we have got four great colour tools that can generate a beautiful colour palette. Each of the four colour tools have all got a wide range of options available that can be used to inspire you.

Coolors Homepage

Brand identity colour palettes

Coolors

Coolors is a super fast colour palette generator used by 5+ million designers and companies such as Disney, Apple, DropBox and Netflix. You can search through the trending colour palettes or generate you own random colour scheme. Just click the lock icon on the colours you like and click on the generate button again to find colours that match with them. It’s completely free to use with no catch. There is an option to go pro that removes the ads and allows you to save unlimited palettes.

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Color Hunt Homepage

Vintage colour palettes

Color Hunt

Color Hunt is a curated collection of beautiful colour palettes created by Gal Shir. Gal created a simple one page website to feature several basic colour palettes for friends who need help choosing colours for their work. Since then it has gown to be a popular resource that serves around 20,000 designers and creatives everyday. You can search for colour palettes through a series of categories such as pastel, vintage, retro and neon.

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Toptal Colour Tool

Logo design colour palettes

ColourCode: Color Palette Generator

ColourCode is part of a range of free online web-based tools hosted by Toptal. It’s part of a hub of powerfully useful and effective digital tools made for developers, designers and experts. It allows you to browse and discover beautiful colour palettes that you can use for your latest project. Select the free build option to select your first colour then use the monochrome, triad or quad options to build your colour palette.

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ColourSpace Homepage

Generate colour gradients

ColorSpace – Color Palettes Generator and Color Gradient Tool

ColorSpace is a high-tech colour scheme generator tool that creates a colour palette based on the one colour hex code you type in. Based on that one colour, it generates a wide range of colour palettes. Giving you a multitude of options such as shades, matching palettes, classy palettes and gradients to choose from. The website is currently in Beta mode and you are now able to create a gradient out of three colours.

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Summary

This is just a small selection of free colour tools available online that can help you create a beautiful colour palette for your latest design project. We are a graphic design studio based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire that specialises in graphic design. Please feel free to get in touch via our contact page.

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