Here are some of my most-used resources for colour palettes
Lists of colour palettes (made by humans)
My favourite site for this:
https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/most-loved/all-time/meta
(advanced users: see also the JS package: nice
-color-palettes
)
Grab colour-lover palettes to clipboard as an immediately useful javascript array of hex-codes:
https://nice-colours-quicker.netlify.app/
(
src
)
KGolid's
Chromotome
:
https://kgolid.github.io/chromotome-site/
**
and
my modification here
(temporary) which allows you to click a palette to copy it directly into clipboard.
https://colorhunt.co/palettes/trendy
https://flatuicolors.com/
https://lospec.com/palette-list
- lo-fi / retro video game palettes
2-colours
https://2colors.colorion.co/
Algorithmic palette
generators
https://coolors.co/generate
https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
Lists of palettes - extracted from photos
http://colormind.io/
https://colorpalettes.net/
More advanced: JavaScript
libraries
for palettes
Chromotome -
demo *here
* and source:
https://github.com/kgolid/chromotome
https://www.npmjs.com/package/nice-color-palettes
- A JSON of the top color palettes on
ColourLovers.com
, as RGB hex strings.
https://denilson.sa.nom.br/gimp-palettes/index.html
- A collection of (often large) palettes for GIMP and other painting programs.
(Advanced) WCAG-Contrast: A library to check contrast (e.g. if you pick randomly from a palette but need text colour to stand out against background)
https://www.npmjs.com/package/wcag-contrast
riso-colors
(colors not palettes): Matt Deslauriers' library providing colours scraped from
http://stencil.wiki/colors