Tools
A selection of our favourite resources for exploring, testing, generating, and adapting colour, supporting everything from creative experimentation to accessibility and real-world implementation.

Typeflow
by Algo.tv
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Most of these scenes are available for download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

Spiral Palette Generator
by Peter T. Donahue
A different kind of palette generator, creating helical color ramps in OKLCH space

Cosmos.so
A digital platform with AI-powered tagging and search (plus a nice colour search) for collecting and organizing visual inspiration. It lets users save images, videos, links, and notes into curated collections called clusters, which can be private or public, without ads or social-media metrics.

OKLCH Picker & Converter
by Evil Martians
OKLCH is a new colour model based on human vision, expressing colours as Lightness (L), Chroma (C) (color intensity), and Hue (H) (color angle). It’s designed to be perceptually uniform, meaning changes in values correspond more closely to how we actually see colour differences.

Jitter
Jitter is a browser‑based motion design tool that for animations without complex software, offering an intuitive timeline, reusable presets, text and vector animation, Figma integration, real‑time collaboration, and export to video, GIF, or Lottie.

Wada Sanzo Colors
by Paul Ungerer
A digital platform showcasing a digital version of 1930s Dictionary of Colour Combinations from Japanese artist and theorist Sanzo Wada. Users can browse classic, seasonal, and design-inspired palettes, view individual colour values (RGB/HEX/LAB), save favourites, and use a colour picker to find matching hues for creative projects.

Coolors
A robust and easy web-based colour palette generator allowing designers to create, refine, and export colour schemes in multiple formats or directly into design tools. It also offers contrast checker, Tailwind CSS, palette preview in designs, colour meanings, palette extractor and some AI tools.

Harmonizer
by Evil Martians
An OKLCH palette builder. It has a Figma plugin as well. Watch the tutorial on the website link since it's a bit complicated to understand what it can do.

Realtime Colors
by Juxtopposed
An interactive web tool that lets you visualize custom color palettes and font combinations in real time on a live sample website and export them for design or development use.

Endless tools
Endless Tools is a browser-based, no-code platform to generate 3D visuals, animations, effects and other graphic assets without heavy software or coding, using features like AI object creation, vector-to-3D conversion, material libraries, shaders and embed-ready interactive elements.

Il-Verse
by Heikki Lotvonen
IL-VERSE is an experimental visual poetry and typography editor that lets you place letters on a canvas with collision detection. Letters are "dropped" in a chosen direction until they hit other letters or the canvas edge.

Gradientor
by Afterimage
A simple and fun tool for drawing with gradients.

Saturation vs. Chroma
By Peter T. Donahue
Saturation and Chroma are are words that describe how colourful a color is. But they measure it differently — and the difference reshapes a hue plane completely, affecting how palettes hold together across light and dark values. This visualization lets you compare them side by side.

Marbling
by Afterimage
In-browser marbling simulator. Marble your pictures!

Color Wheel
by Adobe
Browse and create colour themes based on colour theory with the palette generator. Extract themes from images, generate gradients and recolour vector artworks.

Dither Tool
by Razi Ansari
A web-based creative utility built with Three.js and Figma Make, designed to let users upload and transform 3D models (OBJ, GLTF/GLB formats), videos (MP4, MOV, WebM), and raster images (PNG, JPEG, etc.) into stunning dithered and ASCII art visuals.

Ouroborus
by Dia.TV
Researching the possibilities of self-referential shaders. A playground for exploring the effects of recursive feedback loops in real time.

Contrast Checker
by WebAim
The OG online tool to evaluate the accessibility of colour combinations by calculating contrast ratios between foreground and background colours. Users can input HEX values to see whether they meet WCAG standards for normal, large, and enhanced text.

Contrast Checker
by Coolors
A simpler and pretier contrast checker (but not as complete as WebAim's).

Contrast Grid
by Michael Herchel
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools.

Coloring for Colorblindness
by David Nichols
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools.

Who Can use
by Corey Ginnivan
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

BlobSketch
by Colin Reid
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

Video2Vision
By Vera Vasas, Daniel Hanley
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

The ISCC-NBS Colour System
by Paul Centore
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

ISCC-NBS Centroid Picker
by Peter T. Donahue
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

Colour Names
by Coolors
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

Color Name
by Evil Martians
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.

RGB to Pantone
by DNS Checker
This free tool runs on Cavalry, a popular animation software — it's meant to showcase how Cavalry can be used to build tailor-made, branded creative tools. The preview runs on the Cavalry WebPlayer. Video creation runs via the Algo cloud rendering infra. Most of these scenes are available for you to download for free from Scenery, a community of artists sharing open files.