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

    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 Image

    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

     

    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

    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

    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

     

    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

    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

    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

    Marbling

    by Afterimage

    In-browser marbling simulator. Marble your pictures!

  • Color Wheel

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • Constrast Checker

    Contrast Checker

    by Coolors

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

  • Contrast Grid

    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

    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.

  • Whocanuse

    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.

  • Blobsktetch

    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 Image

    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 Image

    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 Image

    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.

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

    Visualise the contrast ratios of multiple colour pairings at once by generating an easy‑to‑read grid of foreground and background combinations and their WCAG accessibility results.

  • Coloring for Colorblindness

    by David Nichols

    Certain colours that look different to people with normal vision may appear identical to someone who is colourblind, following predictable “confusion lines” in colour space. This website simulates that effect, showing how your chosen palette would appear to viewers with protanopia, deuteranopia, or tritanopia.

  • Who Can use

    by Corey Ginnivan

    A tool that simulates how colour contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.

  • BlobSketch

    by Colin Reid

    BlobSketch is a realtime, browser-native soft-body laboratory where drawing becomes a dialogue with physics. Built in under 150KB of pure HTML, CSS, and WebGL, it reframes physics engines as creative instruments, demonstrating how embodied soft-matter interfaces can support both scientific insight and artistic exploration.

  • Video2Vision

    By Vera Vasas, Daniel Hanley

    An open source image processing toolkit for using multispectral videos to approximate the vision of animals. Created by biology researchers, to be used in conjunction with a 3D printed open source device called Multispectrum Beamsplitter.

  • The ISCC-NBS Colour System

    by Paul Centore

    The ISCC–NBS Colour System is a standardized method that assigns names to colors based on measurable values, combining scientific precision with everyday language. It groups colors into categories using hue, lightness, and saturation so they can be consistently identified and described across different fields.

  • ISCC-NBS Centroid Picker

    by Peter T. Donahue

    Enter a hex code to find its nearest ISCC-NBS color name and see how close it is to the centroid.

  • Colour Names

    by Coolors

    A library of more than 500 colour names and Hexcodes.

  • Color Name

    by Evil Martians

    A Figma plugin that answers the question “How should I name this color?” once and for all.

  • RGB to Pantone

    by DNS Checker

    RGB to Pantone converter is a free browser-based online color converter tool to quickly convert your RGB color’s coded value to Pantone color value. The Pantone color converter provides the best possible outcomes ranging up to 96 variants depending on your selection.

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

    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 Image

    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

     

    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

    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

    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

     

    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

    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

    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

    Marbling

    by Afterimage

    In-browser marbling simulator. Marble your pictures!

  • Color Wheel

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • Constrast Checker

    Contrast Checker

    by Coolors

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

  • Contrast Grid

    Contrast Grid

    by Michael Herchel

    Visualise the contrast ratios of multiple colour pairings at once by generating an easy‑to‑read grid of foreground and background combinations and their WCAG accessibility results.

  • Coloring for Colorblindness

    Coloring for Colorblindness

    by David Nichols

    Certain colours that look different to people with normal vision may appear identical to someone who is colourblind, following predictable “confusion lines” in colour space. This website simulates that effect, showing how your chosen palette would appear to viewers with protanopia, deuteranopia, or tritanopia.

  • Whocanuse

    Who Can use

    by Corey Ginnivan

    A tool that simulates how colour contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.

  • Blobsktetch

    BlobSketch

    by Colin Reid

    BlobSketch is a realtime, browser-native soft-body laboratory where drawing becomes a dialogue with physics. Built in under 150KB of pure HTML, CSS, and WebGL, it reframes physics engines as creative instruments, demonstrating how embodied soft-matter interfaces can support both scientific insight and artistic exploration.

  • Video2Vision Image

    Video2Vision

    By Vera Vasas, Daniel Hanley

    An open source image processing toolkit for using multispectral videos to approximate the vision of animals. Created by biology researchers, to be used in conjunction with a 3D printed open source device called Multispectrum Beamsplitter.

  • The ISCC-NBS Colour System

    by Paul Centore

    The ISCC–NBS Colour System is a standardized method that assigns names to colors based on measurable values, combining scientific precision with everyday language. It groups colors into categories using hue, lightness, and saturation so they can be consistently identified and described across different fields.

  • ISCC-NBS Centroid Picker

    by Peter T. Donahue

    Enter a hex code to find its nearest ISCC-NBS color name and see how close it is to the centroid.

  • Colour Names Image

    Colour Names

    by Coolors

    A library of more than 500 colour names and Hexcodes.

  • Color Name

    by Evil Martians

    A Figma plugin that answers the question “How should I name this color?” once and for all.

  • RGB to Pantone Image

    RGB to Pantone

    by DNS Checker

    RGB to Pantone converter is a free browser-based online color converter tool to quickly convert your RGB color’s coded value to Pantone color value. The Pantone color converter provides the best possible outcomes ranging up to 96 variants depending on your selection.