The Color Palette Generator helps you build a small set of related colors starting from a single base color. Good palettes are essential for clean, professional designs because they control contrast, emphasis, and visual balance. Instead of picking random colors, this tool applies simple rules to create a primary shade, lighter tints, and darker accents that work well together.

You begin by choosing a core color. The generator then derives a mini palette consisting of subtle variations that you can use for backgrounds, borders, buttons, and highlights. By reusing this palette throughout your interface or document, you create a more coherent look and avoid the cluttered feeling that comes from using too many unrelated colors.

Everything runs locally in your browser and updates instantly as you experiment with different starting points. This makes the tool useful both for quick prototypes and for refining more polished designs. It offers an easy way to move from a single color you like to a versatile set of options that can support an entire layout.