Color Hunt

~4,200 curated 4-colour palettes, filterable by 18 colours and 31 moods

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Color Hunt is Gal Shir's open-but-curated palette collection, running since 2015: users submit four-colour combinations, curators hand-pick them, and one submission is featured on the homepage each day. Filter by 18 colour names (Blue, Teal, Mint, Green, Sage, Yellow, Beige, Brown, Orange, Peach, Red, Maroon, Pink, Purple, Navy, Black, Grey, White) or by 31 collections (Pastel, Vintage, Retro, Neon, Gold, Light, Dark, Warm, Cold, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring, Happy, Nature, Earth, Night, Space, Rainbow, Gradient, Sunset, Sky, Sea, Kids, Skin, Food, Cream, Coffee, Wedding, Christmas, Halloween), and sort by New, Popular, Month, Year, All time or Random. Free, ad-supported, with a Chrome extension; the About page states each palette is public property owned by no one.

For an agent

Best default when a user wants a good palette immediately with no interaction — every entry is human-curated, so quality is high without you having to judge colour. Two operational facts: the site returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch and other default agent user-agents, so use a browser User-Agent, and there is an undocumented JSON endpoint — POST https://colorhunt.co/php/feed.php with step=<page>&sort=new|popular&tags=<collection>&timeframe=<days>, 40 palettes per page as 12-hex-digit codes, empty past step 105. It is undocumented and unsupported, so cache what you pull and never make it a hard dependency. Hard constraint: every palette is exactly four colours with no semantic roles, so you still have to decide which is background, text and accent — use ColorHub or Coolors when the user needs a six-role token set or a contrast guarantee.

Why it is here. Eleven years of daily human curation makes Color Hunt the highest signal-to-noise palette source on the web, and its palette codes are a compact, stable identifier you can store and re-render anywhere.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Proprietary / all rights reserved
Pricing: Free
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Web app / online tool, Browser extension, Public HTTP API
Platform: Web
Content type: Design tokens / theme files, Images / textures / backgrounds
Agent readiness: Blocks bots, Public API without auth, Copy-paste ready code
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: Free, ad-supported. No paid tier; partnerships go through hello@colorhunt.co.

Notable for

~4,210 palettes reachable through the public feed
Curated daily since 2015 by Gal Shir
18 colour filters and 31 named collections, combinable
Undocumented JSON feed at /php/feed.php, 40 per page
Palettes encoded as a single 12-hex-digit URL code

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://colorhunt.co and https://colorhunt.co/palettes/popular both returned 403 to WebFetch; retrieved instead by curl with a browser User-Agent (HTTP 200) — homepage DOM parsed for the filter and collection names, https://colorhunt.co/about parsed for provenance, and https://colorhunt.co/php/feed.php probed at step=0..500 to bound the palette count

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