Start with one color and generate complementary, analogous, triadic and more, then export as CSS, Tailwind v4, SVG or PNG.
Color theory guide
The wheel arranges hues in a circle so relationships become spatial. Distance means contrast, adjacency means calm. Everything below is interactive — change the wheel above and these ideas click faster.
Tip: share any result — the URL always holds your exact base, harmony and lightness.
One hue is never enough for interfaces. Mix it with black for shades (headers, hover states), white for tints (backgrounds, modals), and gray for tones (muted text, borders, quotes).
Indigo dragged from shade → tint. The same logic powers every palette above.
In the classic RYB wheel taught to painters, red, yellow and blue are primaries; mixing them yields orange, green and purple. On screens we mix light (RGB), so this tool computes harmonies in HSL/HSV — the same circle, tuned for pixels.
Twelve stops around the disc; every other color contains a trace of a primary.
Ease Colors is a free color wheel online for designers and developers who need dependable color without leaving the browser. Pick a base color on the interactive color wheel picker, preview six harmonies at once, then copy production-ready HEX, RGB, HSL or OKLCH codes. Nothing uploads anywhere, there is no account to create, and every result gets a shareable URL that restores your exact base color, harmony and lightness. A built-in shades ramp stretches each base color from tint to shade, and the whole page stays keyboard-operable with visible focus at every step.
The color wheel is a circular color wheel chart of hues arranged so relationships turn spatial: neighboring colors feel calm, opposite colors create tension. The classic primary color wheel taught in art classes mixes red, yellow and blue paint, while the RGB color wheel on your screen mixes light. This tool computes every harmony in HSV/HSL color space, tuned for pixels instead of pigment. Drag a dot around the disc to set hue, pull toward the edge for saturation, and spin the outer lightness ring to carry one hue from background tint to text shade. Because the disc is always drawn at full vividness, the marker dots stay spread out and draggable even when your palette runs near-black or near-white — the geometry never collapses at the extremes.
This color wheel online doubles as a full online color picker and color picker tool:
Exploring directions? Hit Shuffle in the color palettes gallery for a random color picker spin — a random color wheel draw through 400+ curated sets.
Before shipping, run the built-in color-blindness simulation to preview protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia, and keep text legible with contrast-picked swatch labels on every strip.
Every color picker on this page speaks four formats. The hex color picker field accepts any hex code color picker input such as #EDEA37, the RGB color picker reads triplets like rgb(99, 102, 241), and HSL plus OKLCH cover perceptual uniformity that RGB alone cannot. Front-end teams get an HTML color picker and CSS color picker workflow out of the box: export CSS variables, Tailwind v4 theme tokens, a Tailwind v3 config object, Figma JSON, or just the codes. The built-in color picker from screen (EyeDropper) samples any pixel on your monitor, and the color picker wheel dots stay draggable at any lightness. This color picker online is free, with alpha-ready exports covering every RGBA color picker use case. Custom mode freezes any generated set into a hand-editable list: lighten or darken a swatch, drag to reorder, insert a blended midpoint or extend either end — every edit mirrored straight into the share URL.
Photographers and brand designers reach for the image color picker to borrow palettes from the real world. Upload a photo — or paste an image URL — and the color picker from image renders a magnifier loupe with a pixel grid and crosshair, so the hex color picker from image reads the exact pixel you point at, even at 800% zoom. Lock the color, copy it as HEX, RGB, HSL or OKLCH, and send it to the wheel with one click. Step the extracted palette size from two to ten colors, download the strip as PNG, or stash it in the browser vault and reopen it later. Every color picker image you open stays on your device — nothing uploads anywhere.
When one swatch is not enough, the color palette generator builds a ready-made color palette from image data in seconds. It scores pixels by frequency and saturation, filters near-duplicates, then orders the winners by hue — from two up to ten colors you can reorder, extend and delete. Portrait retouchers will appreciate the dedicated skin color palette sets, filed alongside the pastel color palette, blue color palette and green color palette collections. Save favorites in the browser vault, download any color palette as PNG or SVG, and export tokens for handoff. Draggable knobs ride the image at their sampled points, so re-picking a color is a drag rather than a guess.
A complementary color wheel pairs hues 180° apart for maximum tension — orange against blue, violet against yellow. The color wheel complementary colors strip marks your base color with a black dot, so you can see exactly which swatch to reserve for buttons and links while the dominant hue owns the layout. Split-complementary, triadic, tetradic and square rotations sit beside it in the harmonies panel for softer or bolder alternatives.
Twelve seasonal color-analysis systems live in the gallery — seventeen palettes each. Warm, muted briefs start with the soft autumn color palette, while cool, muted ones reach for the soft summer color palette. High-warmth autumn color palette sets serve fall campaigns and food brands, and the deep winter color palette delivers jewel brights on near-black for luxury and evening themes. Light, warm designs pull from the light spring color palette, airy minimal work from the cool summer color palette, and opulent dark work from the deep autumn color palette. Icy contrast belongs to the cool winter color palette, bright warmth to the warm spring color palette, soft mid-tones to the true summer color palette, and quiet luxury to the neutral color palette. Broader summer color palette, winter color palette, spring color palette and autumn color palette moods round out 400+ sets, each with one-click HEX, RGB, HSL and OKLCH copy.
If you arrived searching for the Adobe color wheel, Adobe color picker, Canva color wheel or Google color picker, you already know the job: turn one brand color into a balanced set. Ease Colors covers the same ground — harmonies, HEX/RGB/HSL/OKLCH codes, image sampling and palette export — free in the browser, with shareable URLs and no account standing between you and the swatches. Keyboard-first controls, screen-reader labels and a reduced-motion mode come standard.
Open the color wheel, run the color picker from image, or browse 400+ color palettes. Your next palette is one drag away.
Click any swatch. Use the format switcher for HEX, RGB, HSL or OKLCH before copying.
Press “Copy share link”. The URL encodes your base color, harmony and lightness.
Yes. Every generated HEX, token and export is yours — no attribution required.
The color wheel is a circular chart that arranges hues so their relationships turn spatial: neighboring colors feel calm, while opposites create tension. Art classes teach a red-yellow-blue wheel for mixing paint; screens use an RGB color wheel that mixes light. Designers use it to pick base colors, build harmonies, and check contrast before a palette ever reaches a layout.
Start with one base color — type a HEX code, open the system picker, or sample your screen. Choose a harmony such as analogous, complementary, or triadic, then fine-tune lightness with the outer ring until you have background, text, and accent tones. Copy each swatch as HEX, RGB, HSL, or OKLCH and paste the codes into CSS, Tailwind, or Figma.
Its main purpose is taking guesswork out of combining colors. Instead of eyeballing pairs, you read geometry: distance means contrast and adjacency means calm. That gives every interface a clear hierarchy — one dominant hue, a few supporters, and a reserved accent — so buttons, links, and headings always land where the eye expects them.
Design literature usually lists eight: monochromatic (one hue, many lightnesses), analogous (neighbors), complementary (opposites), split-complementary (a base plus two neighbors of its opposite), triadic (triangle), tetradic or rectangular (two complementary pairs), square (four corners), and achromatic or neutral (blacks, whites, and grays). This tool covers six of them directly, plus a custom mode for hand-edited lists of two to eight colors.
Drag a dot around the disc: the angle sets hue and the distance from the center sets saturation. Drag the outer ring to set lightness without disturbing hue or saturation. You can also type an exact HEX value, open the system color box, or pick any pixel on your monitor with the screen picker — every method lands on the same shareable base color.
A color picker turns a visual choice into an exact, reusable value. It reads any color as HEX, RGB, HSL, or OKLCH codes so designers and developers speak the same language: what you click is byte-identical to what ships in CSS, Tailwind tokens, or Figma styles — no more approximating shades by eye.
The main types are wheel or disc pickers (hue plus saturation at a glance), slider pickers (RGB or HSL channels), HEX field pickers (type-and-go values), eyedropper or screen pickers (sample anything on your monitor), image pickers (magnifier sampling from a photo), and palette libraries (curated sets like the 400+ gallery here). This site combines all six in one workflow.
A color code is a text value that describes one exact color. HEX writes it as six hexadecimal digits (#EDEA37); RGB lists red, green, and blue channels; HSL lists hue, saturation, and lightness; OKLCH is a newer perceptual format where equal numeric steps look equally different. All four describe the same swatch — the format only changes how you read and edit it.
Pick a color with the wheel, a slider, the HEX field, or the screen picker, then copy it in the format your project needs — HEX for the web, RGB or RGBA for app code, HSL for quick tweaks, OKLCH for perceptual uniformity. Paste the value into your stylesheet, Tailwind config, or design tool, and keep the share link so the exact color is one click away later.
A color palette keeps every surface of a product speaking the same visual language. It assigns roles — background, text, accents, states — so interfaces feel coherent instead of assembled from random swatches. A good palette also bakes in contrast and hierarchy up front, which means fewer readability fixes and a stronger, more recognizable brand.
Common types include monochromatic, analogous, and complementary palettes built from wheel geometry; pastel and neon palettes defined by energy; seasonal palettes matched to skin undertones (soft autumn through neutral); brand palettes locked to identity colors; and extracted palettes sampled from photographs. The gallery here hosts all of them — 400+ sets across 60+ categories.
Start from one base color that fits the mood — warm and muted, cool and airy, or dark and dramatic. Expand it with a harmony, then check the result the way users will meet it: body text contrast, button accents, and a color-blindness simulation for protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia. If it survives all three, share the link and ship it.