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Color Palette Generators for Interior Design Color Schemes

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The Spruce / Michelle Becker

Online tools can help amateur interior design decorators choose hues, develop interior design color schemes, and create a color story for entire rooms. Online tools may include color generators and color viewers, or visualizer tools. Color generators will help identify colors and color palettes by incorporating your preferences. Using an online color generator, you can choose colors from a color wheel or upload a photo, scan it, and use those colors to develop your color scheme. Try one of these great color generators to make decorating the perfect room easier.

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ColorSnap


This fun gadget was created by Sherwin-Williams and will allow you to build a palette for any room. Upload any photo as inspiration, and the tool will create a custom color palette with coordinating Sherwin-Williams paint colors. You can create an account and save your palettes for future use. While the idea is to find the perfect Sherwin-Williams paint color, you don't have to be married to using this brand's paint to enjoy playing with this fun tool.

Color Snap by Sherwin Williams

Sherwin Williams

Visualize Color


Glidden Paints powers this user-friendly color tool using an uploaded photo of your house or a sample image already on the tool. Visualize Color allows you to virtually "paint" a room or create a palette explicitly suited to your home. You can easily add color choices to a list to save offline and take to your local paint supply store.

Visualize Color by Glidden Paints

Glidden Paints

Color Designer


To develop a color scheme on this site, this color picker will help you find a tint, play with shade, and experiment with color harmonies. It's perfect if you're hoping to flirt with gradients and color mixing. This site helps web designers but is also an excellent tool for home decorators.

Color Designer

Color Designer

Coolors.co

Coolors.co is another standalone tool for graphic designers or home decorators. This easy-to-use website allows you to upload any image, pick a starting color and find four more matching colors to create your palette. Once you're done, save your palette until you find the perfect shades. Some features will enable you to adjust saturation, view the colors in "color blindness" mode, and more.

Coolors color palette generator

Coolors

Canva

Canva is another tool that allows you to upload your favorite photo from that dream vacation and create a color palette. Since Canva isn't associated with a specific company, you can match the colors to any paint brand you like. Once you pick an image, you'll get five colors playing beautifully together.

Canva color palette generator tool

Canva

Colormind

If you don't even know where to start to find the perfect color palette, Colormind can help. This tool comes with pre-made palettes to help get your creative juices flowing. Like many other tools, you can also start from an image and match colors to the hues in the photo.

Colormind color palette generator

Colormind

ColourLovers

COLOURlovers offers tools for creating color palettes and patterns, but it's also a vast online community for design lovers worldwide. COLOURlovers is a global community that has nearly 5 million user-generated color palettes. Check out the "Home" tab for user-generated color palettes for interior design. Over 9 million users contribute color ideas, palettes, and patterns. Membership is free.

Colour Lovers interface

Colour Lovers

Paletton

Start with one color and explore the wheel of possibilities. Paletton's user-friendly tool has presets, allows you to randomize, and inspires you to play with color. The page opens up with the tool ready to start picking colors. It has a "color scheme designer" and "color scheme generator" tool to instantly get you into finding a color scheme. This tool is terrific for learning and experimenting with color. Once you see complementary colors you love, pop them into a color-matching tool to find brands closely resembling each shade.

Color palatte tool online
 Color Scheme Designer

Adobe Color

This color wheel app makes color play easy. If you weren't sure what analogous, monochromatic, or complementary colors were before, opening Adobe's web-based color wheel app helps you realize these popular color schemes in seconds. Use their presets or move one of their preset choices on the color wheel to your preferred color. Once you've settled on a color scheme you like, this color picker gives you the RGB values of the colors, which you can provide to a paint vendor for paint matching.

Adobe Color user interface

Adobe Color

Benjamin Moore's Personal Color Viewer

If you plan on making interior changes that include repainting the walls, starting with a color picker from a paint manufacturer eliminates several steps, making your interior design process easier. This tool from Benjamin Moore is best if you're looking to paint walls and trim. Although you can pick three colors, they are listed explicitly as "walls," "wainscoting," and "trim." If you can look beyond those labels, you can find three colors that work well in a room, and the app "repaints" a photo you upload or uses one of the sample photos they have for different types of rooms, like the bedroom, kitchen, and more. To save time, you can also select one of their preselected color "collections" or "families."

Benjamin Moore's Color Viewer

Benjamin Moore

Color Palette Generator

Degraeve's tool is perfect for this task for designers working from a photo for inspiration. Enter the URL for the reference photo, and the color palette generator extracts the prevailing colors from the image, giving you the RGB values. It works fast and efficiently, taking the guesswork out of color matching.

Color Palette Generator

DaGraeve

Test Before You Buy

Color palettes and designer-crafted schemes are based on color theory. They are an excellent starting point for choosing your interior colors, but the true test of colors happens on your walls.

The best way to find the perfect palette is to buy some paint samples and paint them on the wall. Or, get stick-on paint swatches, and see how they look throughout the day and night, as natural light will make colors take on different attributes.

Whether you're picking the perfect bedroom palette or want to find a few new throw pillows or accessories that match your living room's color palette, a color generator is a great way to find inspiration and discover complementary colors you may not have thought of.