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How it works
Pick a base colour
Use the colour picker or type a hex value to set your starting colour. This becomes the foundation of your palette.
Choose a harmony mode
Select analogous for soft, cohesive palettes; complementary for contrast; triadic or split-complementary for vibrant variety.
Export your palette
Click on any swatch to copy its hex. Use the export button to copy your full palette as CSS variables or Tailwind config.
Why use Ozaar Color Palette Generator?
4 colour harmony modes
Analogous, complementary, triadic, and split-complementary, all based on colour theory principles used by professional designers.
One-click CSS export
Export your palette as CSS custom properties (--color-primary, etc.) ready to paste into your stylesheet.
Tailwind config export
Copy a Tailwind CSS colors object to drop directly into tailwind.config.js with properly named shades.
Click to copy HEX
Click any colour swatch to copy its hex value to clipboard. Build, iterate, and export your palette in seconds.
Real-world use cases
Brand identity design
Build a cohesive colour system for a new brand in minutes. Start from the primary brand colour and generate a full palette instantly.
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Frontend Developer
UI component theming
Export directly to Tailwind or CSS variables. Drop your palette into your design system and have consistent colours everywhere.
Try it for this →Marketing materials
Quickly generate on-brand colour options for social posts, ads, and presentations without needing a full design software licence.
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What is a Color Palette Generator?
A colour palette generator is a design tool that creates sets of harmonious colours based on colour theory principles. Rather than choosing colours arbitrarily, these tools apply mathematical relationships between hues on the colour wheel to produce palettes that are visually pleasing, cohesive, and suitable for use in branding, UI design, and marketing materials.
Colour harmony is a fundamental principle of design. When colours relate to each other through established geometric relationships on the colour wheel, such as being adjacent (analogous), opposite (complementary), or evenly distributed (triadic), they tend to feel balanced and intentional rather than random or jarring.
Ozaar Colour Palette Generator produces 5-colour palettes in four harmony modes, analogous, complementary, triadic, and split-complementary, with one-click export to CSS custom properties or Tailwind CSS configuration.
How does Color Palette Generator work?
Palette generation uses HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) colour space arithmetic. Given a base hex colour, the tool converts it to HSL and then calculates the hue angles of the other palette colours based on the selected harmony mode. Complementary colours are exactly 180° away on the hue wheel; triadic colours are 120° apart; analogous colours are 30° apart.
The CSS and Tailwind exports are generated client-side by formatting the calculated hex values into the appropriate variable or object syntax. No server processing is needed.
Why use a browser-based Color Palette Generator?
Browser-based colour palette generation is instantaneous and requires no design software license. The tool is accessible to developers who need quick CSS colours, non-designers building their first brand, and experienced designers who want to prototype palette ideas quickly.
Unlike some palette tools, our exports are immediately usable, the CSS output goes directly into a stylesheet, and the Tailwind output goes directly into tailwind.config.js. No copy-pasting and reformatting required.
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