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Coolors

Palette generator with 10M+ schemes, contrast checker and Tailwind export

Tier S · Best in classColor ToolGeneratorAppcoolors.co

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Coolors is the de-facto default colour tool on the web: a spacebar-driven palette generator wrapped in about eighteen sibling tools — Explore Palettes, Image Picker, Contrast Checker, Palette Visualizer, Color Picker, Tailwind Colors, Color Bot, Browse/Make Gradients, Image Converter, Photo Editor, Image Recolor, Collage Maker, Free Fonts and Font Generator. Palettes live in the URL as hyphen-joined hex codes, so any palette is a shareable, constructible address. Free with ads up to 5 colours and 10 saves; Pro (~$3/month) lifts it to 10 colours, 10M+ schemes, AI credits and advanced export.

For an agent

Reach for Coolors when the user needs a palette *explored* or when you want a canonical shareable URL for one — coolors.co/<hex>-<hex>-<hex> is constructible from hex codes you already have, so you can hand a user a live palette link without an API call or a login. Prefer Color Hunt when the ask is "give me a good palette right now" (curated, no interaction needed) and Coolors when the ask is "iterate around this brand colour". Watch out: the generator, saves and the good export formats sit behind auth and the Pro tier, so do not promise an agent-driven export pipeline — treat it as a human-in-the-loop tool and lift the hex values yourself.

Why it is here. It is the tool most designers and most training data already assume, so recommending it costs a user zero learning curve — and its contrast checker means colour advice can be made WCAG-defensible in the same session.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License
Proprietary / all rights reserved
Pricing
Freemium, Subscription, Free but account required
Framework
Not applicable
Styling
Tailwind CSS, CSS custom properties
Distribution
Web app / online tool, Hosted SaaS product, Figma plugin, Browser extension, Mobile application
Platform
Web, iOS, Cross-platform
Content type
Design tokens / theme files, Images / textures / backgrounds
Agent readiness
Copy-paste ready code, Login required
Accessibility
Contrast checked, WCAG 2.x AA, WCAG 2.x AAA
Maturity
Actively maintained
Pricing detail
Free: ads shown, palettes up to 5 colours, 10K+ schemes, 10 saved palettes, 1 project + 1 collection, 5 saved colours, image picking, limited collage. Pro: ~$3/month (yearly billing also offered) — Coolors AI at 3,000 credits/month, no ads, 10-colour palettes, 10M+ schemes, unlimited saves/projects/collections, palette contrast checking, variations viewer, advanced export, private profiles, custom PDF logos, dark mode.

Notable for

  • ~18 colour and image tools under one account
  • Palettes encoded directly in the URL as hex codes
  • WCAG AA/AAA contrast checker built in
  • iOS app, Figma plugin, Chrome extension and Adobe extension
  • Dedicated Tailwind colour export

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://coolors.co, https://coolors.co/pricing (both WebFetch); price point cross-checked by web search because the pricing page renders amounts client-side

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