All color harmonies
Each harmony applies a different rule from the colour wheel: neighbouring hues, opposite hues, hues spread at even intervals. Pick the one that matches your project, then generate your palette for free, with no signup.
14 classic and modern harmonies, each with a concrete example, the cases where it works best, and the traps to avoid.
Monochromatic Color Palette
A monochromatic palette takes a single hue and varies its saturation and lightness. It is the safest harmony there is — nothing can clash — and it hands you a coherent visual identity straight away.
Analogous Color Palette
Analogous colours sit next to each other on the colour wheel, usually within a 30–60 degree arc. The result is soft, continuous and very close to what you see in nature — a sunset, a forest floor.
Complementary Color Palette
Two complementary colours sit opposite each other on the colour wheel, 180 degrees apart. This is the harmony of maximum contrast: blue and orange, red and green, purple and yellow.
Split-Complementary Color Palette
A split-complementary scheme takes a base hue, then the two neighbours of its complement rather than the complement itself. You keep the contrast but lose the harshness of the strict pair.
Triadic Color Palette
A triadic palette spreads three hues evenly, 120 degrees apart on the colour wheel. The result is vivid, balanced and cheerful — the harmony of brands that want to be noticed.
Tetradic Color Palette
The tetradic palette, also called the rectangle scheme, combines two complementary pairs. It is the richest of the classic harmonies, and the most demanding.
Double Complementary Color Palette
A double complementary scheme uses two opposite pairs picked close together on the wheel. You get a warm, graduated palette — the backbone of most multicolour gradients.
Gradient Color Palette
A gradient palette steps evenly from the darkest colour to the lightest. It is the direct starting point for a CSS `linear-gradient` or a design-system colour scale.
Nature Color Palette
A nature palette leans on the colours you find outside: plant greens, earths, sands, bark. These combinations feel familiar straight away because the eye meets them every day.
Warm and Cool Color Palette
This palette organises colour by temperature: warm hues on one side, cool on the other, with a neutral in the middle. It is a composition tool before it is a harmony.
Color Palette by Emotion
An emotional palette starts from the effect you want rather than from the geometry of the colour wheel. Trust, urgency, serenity, luxury: each intention calls for a different family of hues.
Material Design Color Palette
Material Design palettes follow Google’s logic: one primary colour, one secondary for accents, neutral surfaces and a grey scale for text and elevation.
Vintage Color Palette
A vintage palette desaturates colour and pulls it towards beige, sepia and brown. It suggests aged paper, seventies posters, film photography.
Seasonal Color Palette
A seasonal palette borrows its colours from a moment in the year: spring pastels, saturated summer hues, autumn ochres, winter cools.