Color Palettes Guides
Guides for browsing, creating, saving, analyzing, downloading, and exporting ReadyTools color palettes.
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Getting Started
Learn what Color Palettes is, how to browse palettes, search, sort, save, like, and use categories.
What is Color Palettes?
Learn what the ReadyTools Color Palettes tool is for and how it helps designers, creators, and developers choose better color combinations.
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How to browse Color Palettes
Use the main Color Palettes page to scan palette cards, open palettes, and load more results.
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How to search Color Palettes
Search the palette library by name and use clearer search terms to find relevant palettes faster.
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How to sort Color Palettes
Use Random, Last, and Most liked sorting to browse palettes in different ways.
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How to use palette categories
Browse Color Palettes by style categories and color-family categories.
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How to save and like palettes
Use bookmarks and likes to keep useful palettes and support palettes you prefer.
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Creating Palettes
Create palettes manually, extract colors from images, choose categories, and publish clean palette pages.
How to create a color palette
Create and publish a palette with colors, name, description, categories, and color-family tags.
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How to add, remove, and edit palette colors
Use the palette editor to manage the colors included in a new palette.
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How to extract a palette from an image
Upload or drag an image into the palette editor to extract distinct colors automatically.
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How to write a good palette name and description
Write palette metadata that helps other users understand the mood, use case, and purpose of your palette.
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How to choose palette and color categories
Select accurate style categories and color-family categories when publishing a palette.
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How to fix common palette submission issues
Resolve the most common problems when publishing a new Color Palettes entry.
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Palette Page Basics
Understand the individual palette page, copy values, open Chromo, share palettes, and use related palettes.
How to understand a palette page
Learn what each part of an individual Color Palettes page shows and how to use it.
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How to copy HEX and RGB values
Copy palette colors as HEX or RGB values from the palette page.
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How to open palette colors in Chromo
Send any palette color to Chromo for deeper inspection, formats, accessibility, gradients, and color information.
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How to share a color palette
Copy a palette page link so another person can view the same colors and analysis.
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How to use palette page navigation
Use the horizontal palette page navigation to jump between harmony, UI, accessibility, visuals, and export sections.
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How to use related palettes
Use related palettes to keep exploring similar color directions from the same category or color family.
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Visuals and Downloads
Use gradient previews, poster exports, color spec cards, recolored SVG previews, and downloadable palette assets.
How to use the gradient preview
Preview how all palette colors blend together in one CSS gradient and copy the gradient code.
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How to download color spec cards
Download individual color PNG cards that include HEX, RGB, HSL, and CMYK information.
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How to download palette posters
Download generated palette posters for presentations, moodboards, social previews, and client review.
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How to use recolored SVG previews
Preview a palette applied to illustration-style SVG artwork and randomize the color assignment.
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How to copy gradient CSS
Copy CSS gradient snippets from the palette page and use them safely in real designs.
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How to prepare palette assets for social or client work
Use Color Palettes downloads and previews to present a palette clearly to clients, teams, or an audience.
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Premium Analysis
Understand the Plus palette analysis components: harmony, expansion, roles, theme transformation, contrast relationships, and gradients.
What the Plus palette components mean
Understand the premium analysis and workflow components on a Color Palettes detail page.
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How to use Palette Harmony Engine
Learn what the harmony score, harmony type, best-for label, and temperature mean.
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How to use Palette Expander
Generate additional matching colors when a palette needs more range.
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How to use Smart Role Matrix
Turn palette colors into practical UI roles for light and dark interfaces.
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How to use Palette Theme Transformer
Create a matching light or dark direction from an existing palette.
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How to use Palette Relationship Map
Understand contrast ratios, WCAG labels, and the best text-background pairs.
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How to use Palette Gradient Blender
Create two-color gradients from palette pairs and copy ready-to-use CSS.
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Developer Export And Workflows
Export palettes for Tailwind, Shadcn, Figma, Adobe, CSS, SCSS, and real design workflows.
How to use Palette Export Pack
Download practical design and developer files from a finished palette.
20 may 2026
How to export Tailwind and Shadcn files
Use palette exports as Tailwind config and Shadcn-ready CSS variables.
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How to export Figma design tokens
Move palette colors into Figma as structured variables for design work.
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How to export Adobe swatch files
Use palette colors inside Adobe tools with swatch exports.
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How to export CSS and SCSS tokens
Use palette colors as reusable variables in websites and frontend projects.
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How to build a design system from a palette
Turn a color palette into roles, tokens, themes, and reusable interface decisions.
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How to choose a palette for accessible UI
Pick palette colors that stay readable in real product screens.
20 may 2026