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Martin Krause
Martin Krause

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Making beautiful websites: Top 5 FREE color palettes resources

Choosing a beautiful and pleasing color scheme is one of the most difficult tasks for every designer.
Even with the general rule of using a base, accent and a neutral color for your palette, choosing the colors is mostly a matter of intuition and experience.
Don't worry, I have you covered - check out the top five resources and choosing your perfect color palette will be a breeze.

PS: Don't forget to check the bonus link!

coolors

The super fast and super fun color schemes generator. Gamification for the win. You can play for hours or just pick the first color scheme.

colorhunt

Thousands of pre-made color palettes. Each appealing palette consists of four matching colors ready to use.

paletton

Are you looking for a more traditional and professional way of choosing matching colors? You are looking for "triad" or "tetrad" palettes?
Try Paletton, it is the complete opposite of coolors.co. - no gamification but lots of options.

colors.muz.li

Upload a picture and muzli colors does not only generates a matching palette from the predominant colors, you will also get a sample page and related palettes.

Bonus: colormind

Use technology instead of intuition: Colormind is a color scheme generator that uses deep learning. It can learn color styles from photographs, movies, and popular art.


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