Free · Open Source · MIT License

Design systems
that ship
everywhere.

Generate scales, check contrast, simulate colour blindness, and export to CSS, Tailwind, Figma tokens — all offline.

Palette — Design System

Colour Scales

#3b82f6
#2563eb
#1d4ed8
#1e40af
#1e3a8a
#8b5cf6
#7c3aed
#6d28d9
#5b21b6
#4c1d95
#ec4899
#db2777
#be185d
#9d174d
#831843
#f59e0b
#d97706
#b45309
#92400e
#78350f
#10b981
#059669
#047857
#065f46
#064e3b

#7C3AED on #FFFFFF

Contrast: 7.14:1

AAA

Export

What you get

Colour tooling built
for designers who ship.

Stop juggling browser extensions, Figma plugins, and spreadsheets. Palette is one app that does it all — offline.

Colour Scale Generation

Pick a base hue and automatically generate 10-step lightness/saturation scales, perceptually uniform.

Colour Wheel & Harmonies

Complementary, triadic, split-complementary, and analogous schemes with interactive wheel.

WCAG Contrast Checker

Real-time AA/AAA compliance checking for text, large text, and UI components between any two colours.

Colour Blindness Simulation

Preview your palette under deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia, and achromatopsia filters.

Semantic Role Mapping

Assign colour tokens to semantic roles — primary, secondary, success, danger — and name them your way.

Live Preview

See your palette applied to a real UI mockup in real time. Catch clashes before they hit production.

Export Anywhere

CSS custom properties, Tailwind config, Design Tokens JSON, or plain hex list — one click.

Multiple Projects

Organise palettes by project. All saved locally — switch between your brand projects instantly.

Open source

Built in the open,
owned by no one.

Palette is MIT-licensed and developed in the open on GitHub. No subscription, no cloud, no tracking. Build color systems the way you want.

MIT License
Free to use, modify, and distribute
React + Vite
Fast, modern frontend stack
chroma-js
Color math in LCH, LAB, HSL, RGB
Tailwind CSS 4
Utility-first styling
Zustand
Lightweight state management
localStorage
Zero server, zero database

Ready to build

Build your colour system,
ship it anywhere.

Free forever. No cloud. No subscription. Runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.