Colour Palettes Are a Skill Issue
Gentle intervention. If every palette you make looks suspiciously like every other palette on Dribbble, that's because it came from the same place. Same generators. Same trending shots. Same "muted sage + warm cream" combo that's been on 4,000 candle brands.
Your tools aren't the problem. Your reference pool is a puddle. Let's make it a lake.
An AI palette generator that makes you pick colours you like first, then learns your taste. Basically a personal stylist for hex codes. Use it to find out what your taste actually is. Then question it, like a good therapist would.
Generates colour schemes for brand, web and graphic design. Seeing a palette on an actual layout instead of five lonely rectangles will save you at least one awkward client call.
A directory of fire hydrants and their colour palettes. Someone made this. On purpose. And it's genuinely one of the best colour references on the internet. Every street is a swatch book if you stop looking at your phone.
Palettes pulled from Pokémon. Sounds unserious. Is extremely serious. We will not be telling clients which Pokémon their brand is based on, and neither should you.
Random accessible colour pairs. Because a gorgeous palette nobody can read is just modern art.
Colour intuition is built, not downloaded.
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