What's here
Ready-made palettes in five collections, plus pages by theme (Wedding, Christmas, Halloween…) and by look (pastel, earthy, dark…). Harmony palettes are built from color-wheel rules and grouped by mood. Data viz palettes are made for charts and maps, where every color has to stay easy to tell apart. Paintings palettes are taken from famous artworks. Themes are made for an occasion, a season or a style, 24 for each theme. Sanzo Wada holds the 348 combinations from his Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34), a classic among designers: pairs, trios and sets of four, each color with its original name.
Every palette has been checked by huebic before it got here, and the results are shown as badges.
The badges
- AA text pair: at least two of its colors work as readable text on each other (for chart palettes: the colors stand out enough from the background).
- Color-blind safe: the colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness.
- Print-safe: every color can be printed without visibly changing, with the CMYK profile you chose on the Convert page (Coated FOGRA39 when you haven't picked one).
Finding the right one
Pick a collection and a mood or type, a look (pastel, vivid, earthy… worked out from the colors of every palette), and tick the badges you need. The search box finds names, artists, Wada's color names, and hex codes: type #2d8 to find palettes with a color starting with that.
Text on my background shows every palette as text on your own background color, with its contrast, so you can see straight away which ones will work on your page.
The lab report
Every palette has its own page: click its name. It shows the colors in every format, the most readable text pair, how the colors look with color blindness, whether they print, and the palettes most like it, and it has a link you can share. The flask button opens the same report here, without leaving the page.
Taking it with you
Tap any color to copy its hex code.
To take the whole palette, copy it as a HEX list, CSS variables, SCSS, JSON or a Tailwind config, or download it as a PNG, Adobe swatches or a GIMP / Inkscape palette. Adobe Swatches (CMYK) and CMYK values convert the colors through the printing profile you chose on the Convert page, so InDesign gets ready-made process swatches.