5 Free Tools to Create Color Palettes

Designer and illustrator Laura Varsky tells us about her favorite tools to create color palettes for her projects

Creating and selecting the right color palette is an art that not many designers can master. Trends play a big role in choosing specific colors for designs and illustrations, but a trained eye will be able to build a winning palette more easily. There are several free tools to help you create perfect color ranges for your projects. Laura Varsky, an Argentinian designer and illustrator who has made a name for herself in the field of pattern making, shares her favorites.

Color Lisa

Color Lisa is a collection of color palettes inspired by the works of some of the most famous artists of all time, paintings such as The Son of Man, by René Magritte; Gravitation, by M. C. Escher or Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat. And these are just a small selection of the whole collection, which will allow you to use color like the great masters.

Adobe Color

It is, perhaps, one of the best known and most used tools by professionals and students of design and visual arts worldwide. Adobe's tool for creating color palettes is simple and easy to use, just what we need to work effectively.

Color Hunt

Color Hunt is an excellent selection of color palettes created by users from all over the world. You can spend hours diving among these almost infinite collection of color schemes.

Cinema Palettes

This tool works in a similar way to Color Lisa, but Cinema Palettes is inspired by famous movies to obtain color ranges. It is actually a Twitter account that periodically publishes movie scenes with the color card that identifies it.

Color Hunter

This website literally "hunts" for colors. You can upload any image from your computer, and the platform will automatically show you the most predominantly used colors. You can also get inspiration by color ranges from images uploaded by other users.

Laura Varsky teaches the course "Vector Pattern Creation and Commercialization" in Domestika, in which she shares key tips for designing and selling your own vector patterns.

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