Best Shade Alternatives - 2024

Create the perfect palette or get inspired by thousands of beautiful color schemes.

Color Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes

Generate and export your Material Design color palette

Gradient explorer

Pandacolors is a one click color generator with real time preview

Enter the URL of an image and find its color palette

This tool has been created ages ago, but it just plain works. If you can have the image URL ending in .jpg, just add it to the tool, and there you go: 10 most used colors get extracted. Obviously, the UI is from another era, it can't process pics that as embedded in pages via complex plugins etc. But it doesn't matter.

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8. Palette For Mac

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A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

Polychrom is a Figma plugin with a retro aesthetic that measures color contrast using the innovative APCA algorithm. It operates with zero delays even in large documents, handles multiple selected objects, supports P3 colors, and offers many more features.

10. Spectrum

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Intuitively design beautiful color schemes

Create and share color palettes

site redesign, now with horrible clickbait type ads placed everywhere.

Cheapens the site. I won't be sending clients or customers there anymore to choose colors unfortunately. Sad

12. Color Contrast Cool

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Color Contrast Tool analyses text color and background color based on the new, in-development WCAG 3 APCA which relies on human perception of color and gives a lightness contrast value instead of the current mathematical implementation of color contrast ratios

Shade alternatives

Super easy color contrast insights and recommendations