About iPalette

iPalette is a free color palette generator and reference resource for designers, developers, illustrators, students, and anyone who works with colour. The goal is to make exploring, building, and reusing colour simple — without sign-ups, paywalls, or heavy interfaces.

Who the site is for

iPalette serves people who need colour decisions quickly:

• Web and product designers building brand systems, UI themes, and marketing assets.
• Front-end developers who need accurate HEX, RGB, HSL, and CMYK values for CSS or production code.
• Illustrators and digital artists exploring harmonious combinations before starting a piece.
• Students learning colour theory — complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, and square harmonies.
• Content creators and hobbyists who just want inspiration for a project, a presentation, or a room.

What the site covers

The core of iPalette is a palette generator that produces five-colour schemes in different harmony modes and lets you export the result as CSS or a shareable URL. Around that sit several focused tools and reference sections:

• Curated palette collections — seasonal palettes, thematic palettes, and single-hue studies with background on when and why to use each.
• Named colour library — a searchable index of CSS-standard named colours with HEX, RGB, and HSL values.
• Gradient gallery and maker — browse ready-made CSS gradients or build a linear or radial gradient from scratch.
• Interactive colour wheel and WCAG contrast checker — practical tools for understanding relationships between hues and for meeting accessibility targets.
• Trending palettes — a rotating selection of combinations that work well across common use-cases.

Editorial approach

Every written piece on iPalette is produced with a few simple rules in mind:

• General knowledge, not personal anecdotes. Content focuses on what's broadly true about colour — how hues behave, how contrast works, how harmonies are built — rather than invented stories.
• Accuracy over volume. HEX values, contrast ratios, and harmony definitions are based on established colour-theory conventions and WCAG specifications.
• Plain language. Descriptions avoid jargon where a plain word will do. Designers at any level should be able to skim a page and come away with something useful.
• No hype. Pages don't promise magic colour formulas or guaranteed conversions — colour is one design decision among many, and the site treats it that way.

How content is produced

Palette pages follow a consistent structure: the visual palette, the individual HEX codes, a short summary of the character of the combination, typical use-cases, practical design advice, and related palettes. Where a page describes how a colour feels or what it suggests, it reflects general industry practice in colour psychology, not clinical claims.

Tools and their underlying logic (harmony calculations, contrast ratios, HEX/RGB/HSL/CMYK conversions) are implemented from standard formulas rather than outside services. Values are computed in your browser — nothing about your chosen colours is sent to a server.

What iPalette is not

iPalette is a reference and inspiration resource, not a substitute for brand-specific consulting, formal accessibility auditing, or colour-management workflows in print production. Designers working in regulated industries should verify final colours against their own brand guidelines and colour profiles.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, suggestions, or partnership queries are welcome. See the contact page for how to reach the site.