Hex Color Picker & Color Palette Generator
Hex Color Picker & Color Palette Generator
Blog Article
Colour shapes first impressions in 50 milliseconds. If you’re polishing a SaaS dashboard,
refreshing a brand, or just hunting for fresh design inspiration, you need an online hex color picker
that doubles as a color palette generator.
Meet Hexful—lightning-fast, accessibility-smart and free on the web or as a lightweight color
Chrome extension.
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Table of contents
1. Online Hex Color Picker – Fast, Precise, Accessible
2. Image Color Picker: Build Palettes From Any Photo
3. Interactive Color Wheel Basics
4. Generate a Color Palette in One Click
5. Color Chrome Extension for Daily Design Inspiration
6. Case Study – From Blank Canvas to Bold Brand
7. Pro Tips for Pixel-Perfect Colour
8. FAQ
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1. Online Hex Color Picker
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Fast, Precise, Accessible
Drag the hue ring or paste a value into the HEX / RGB / HSL fields. Every tweak updates live, and
one click copies the code. Toggle Contrast for instant WCAG AA/AAA scores—fix issues before
they ship.
Alt text suggestion for screenshot:
Hex Color Picker showing #FF6B6B selected on colour wheel with AAA contrast indicator
2. Image Color Picker: Build Palettes From Any Photo
Upload a product shot, illustration or UI screenshot. Click any pixel and Hexful extracts the exact
hex plus a five-swatch color palette. Perfect for matching brand imagery or sparking quick color
inspiration. Image color picker can extract a five-colour palette from any photo you upload. All
images uploaded use your computers local storage so are safe and only visible to you.
3. Interactive Color Wheel Basics
Hexful’s picker is powered by classic color-wheel theory—complementary, triadic and split-
complementary maths under the hood. Lock any hue you love, regenerate the rest and stay
perfectly balanced every time.
4. Generate a Color Palette in One Click
Press Generate and Hexful spins up harmonious palettes on demand. Lock, shuffle, refine, then
export as CSS variables, JSON or SVG. It’s the fastest route from idea to implementation.
5. Color Chrome Extension for Daily Design Inspiration
Heavy design suites slow you down, so Hexful delivers a weightless color Chrome extension:
every new tab reveals a fresh palette. Hover to copy, pin favourites, import to the full editor—no
account, no trackers.
How to create your first palette
1. Open Hexful’s Hex Color Picker.
2. Click Generate for an instant five-color palette.
3. Lock hues you like; regenerate the rest.
4. Drag-and-drop an image to refine with the image color picker.
5. Check accessibility in Contrast view.
6. Export CSS variables or copy hex values—done!
6. Case Study
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From Blank Canvas to Bold Brand
Studio Arcade, a two-person indie-game team, needed an eight-colour UI theme in 48 hours.
1. Dropped concept art into Hexful’s image color picker.
2. Locked a punchy magenta & deep charcoal.
3. Generated triadic accents, passed AAA, exported CSS and shipped.
Result? A Steam homepage feature on launch week—and a palette now driving merch sales.
7. Pro Tips for Pixel-Perfect Colour
• Name design tokens (--brand-primary, --brand-secondary) before export.
• Use Shades view for hover/active states without killing contrast.
• Include both spellings—“color” and “colour”—in alt text to capture color palette global traffic.
• Audit palettes quarterly; seasonal tweaks keep products fresh.
Whether you search for a color picker or colour picker, Hexful has you covered.
8. FAQ
Is Hexful free?
Yes – both the web app and Chrome extension are 100 % free with no feature limits.
Does Hexful work on Safari and Chrome?
Yes - Hexful works on all modern browsers.
Does Hexful work offline?
The Chrome extension caches recent palettes, so you can still copy hex codes when Wi-Fi drops.
Try Hexful Today - www.hexful.com
Web App – Visit hexful.com, press Generate, and start exploring.
Chrome Extension – Search “Hexful – Color Palette Generator” in the Chrome Web Store and add
it free.
Build brighter brands—one pixel-perfect colour at a time.