Chromo Guides
Guides for finding, analyzing, understanding, exporting, and using colors with Chromo on ReadyTools.
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Getting Started
Start here if you are new to Chromo and want to search colors, analyze images, or open color detail pages.
What is Chromo?
Learn what Chromo does and when to use it for color research, design, development, and accessibility checks.
20 may 2026
How to find a color by HEX, RGB, HSL, or name
Use the Chromo search box to open a color page from common color inputs.
20 may 2026
How to analyze colors from an image
Upload an image in Chromo, extract dominant colors, and pick a precise pixel color.
20 may 2026
How to browse the Chromo color database
Use `/chromo/colors` to explore, search, copy, and open database colors.
20 may 2026
How to open and share a Chromo color page
Understand Chromo color URLs and how to share a specific color page.
20 may 2026
Color Inspection
Understand the information shown on a Chromo color page, including formats, conversions, navigation, and copyable values.
How to read color identity and formats in Chromo
Understand the first data shown on a Chromo color page, including names, HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and luminance.
20 may 2026
How to use Chromo color page navigation
Use the sticky Chromo section navigation to move between color tools quickly.
20 may 2026
How to copy color values in Chromo
Copy color values, palette colors, converter values, code snippets, and gradient CSS from Chromo.
20 may 2026
How to understand the Chromo color converter
Use the Converter section to copy web, print, developer, and lab color formats.
20 may 2026
Design Workflows
Use Chromo for palettes, harmonies, accessibility, typography, previews, psychology, and visual design decisions.
How to use shades, tints, and tones
Use Chromo variations to create darker, lighter, and muted versions of a color.
20 may 2026
How to use Chromo color harmonies
Use complementary, analogous, triadic, and split harmonies to build color combinations.
20 may 2026
How to use generated Chromo palettes
Use Chromo's generated palettes for UI, vibrant, natural, and pop color directions.
20 may 2026
How to preview a color in real interfaces
Use Chromo's Preview section to see how a color feels in UI, cards, mobile screens, chat, data, and visual mockups.
20 may 2026
How to choose typography for a color
Use Chromo's Typography section to preview font pairings and copy font-family values.
20 may 2026
How to check accessibility and contrast in Chromo
Use Chromo's Accessibility section to check contrast on white and black backgrounds and preview color vision simulations.
20 may 2026
How to understand color psychology in Chromo
Use Chromo's Psychology section to understand a color's mood, associations, persona, and common use cases.
20 may 2026
Advanced Color Tools
Use Chromo's advanced tools for Lab editing, paint mixing, color physics, library matching, code export, and gradients.
How to use Color Lab in Chromo
Use Chromo's Lab section to experiment with color adjustments and copy resulting colors.
20 may 2026
How to use the Chromo paint mixer
Understand the Artist and Printer mixer tabs and when to treat the results as guidance.
20 may 2026
How to understand Color Physics in Chromo
Use Chromo's Physics section to understand hue, wavelength-style interpretation, and non-spectral colors.
20 may 2026
How to match a color to libraries
Use Chromo's Libraries section to find close matches in digital and physical color libraries.
20 may 2026
How to export color code from Chromo
Copy ready-made code snippets for CSS, SCSS, Tailwind, React Native, SwiftUI, and JSON.
20 may 2026
How to generate CSS gradients in Chromo
Use Chromo's Gradients section to copy linear, mesh, conic, radial, texture, and pattern gradient CSS.
20 may 2026
Color Page Components
Understand every major component on a Chromo color page and what each section shows.
What the Chromo color hero shows
Understand the large top section of a Chromo color page.
20 may 2026
What the color formats grid shows
Understand the quick format cards below the Chromo hero.
20 may 2026
What the Chromo section navigation shows
Understand the sticky navigation bar on a Chromo color page.
20 may 2026
What the Variations section shows
Understand shades, tints, and tones on a Chromo color page.
20 may 2026
What the Harmonies section shows
Understand the generated harmony groups for a Chromo color.
20 may 2026
What the Palettes section shows
Understand the generated palette cards on a Chromo color page.
20 may 2026
What the Converter section shows
Understand the conversion tabs and values in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Preview section shows
Understand the interface mockups in the Chromo Preview section.
20 may 2026
What the Typography section shows
Understand the font pairing cards generated for a Chromo color.
20 may 2026
What the Accessibility section shows
Understand contrast checks and color vision previews in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Psychology section shows
Understand mood, associations, industries, and warnings in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Color Lab section shows
Understand the adjustment and blending tools in Chromo Color Lab.
20 may 2026
What the Paint Mixer section shows
Understand the artist and printer mixing estimates in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Physics section shows
Understand wavelength-style, temperature, and luminance information in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Libraries section shows
Understand digital and physical color library matches in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Code section shows
Understand the code snippets generated by Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Gradients section shows
Understand the generated gradient CSS in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Chromo home search panel shows
Understand the main search area on the Chromo start page.
20 may 2026
What the Chromo home action buttons do
Understand the quick actions on the Chromo start page.
20 may 2026
What the Image Analyzer panel shows
Understand dominant colors, percentages, and pixel picking in Chromo.
20 may 2026
What the Chromo color database shows
Understand the `/chromo/colors` database page and its grid.
20 may 2026
What a Chromo color card shows
Understand the color cards used in the Chromo database.
20 may 2026
What the invalid color page shows
Understand what happens when a Chromo color URL is not valid.
20 may 2026
What the Chromo info sections show
Understand the informational sections below the Chromo start tool.
20 may 2026