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Palette Inspiration
Generate palettes inspired by 3,000 master painters
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Generate palettes inspired by 3,000 master painters
5 followers
Palette Inspiration brings the color wisdom of the great masters to your fingertips - a color resource unlike any other, where every recommendation is drawn from master paintings, not generic color theory or trend feeds. Explore palettes from 3,000+ painters and 22,000+ curated artwork analyses, discover the most paired colors for any hue, and build with a palette generator that suggests each next color from hues painters actually used together. Export to CSS, Tailwind, ASE & Figma.
Hey all,
Quick backstory: I built this because I kept reaching for random palette generators during web design work and got tired of suggestions with nothing behind them - five colors that somewhat harmonize on paper but feel very arbitrary the second you actually use them. I wanted palettes with some real prevalence.
So the idea is simple: instead of generating colors out of nothing, pull them straight from real master paintings - colors that already worked on a canvas. Users can browse palettes by painter, movement, or genre, see which colors any given hue was most often paired with in real work, and build their own with a palette generator that only suggests shades painters actually used side by side. The idea is that centuries of people like Monet, Vermeer or Van Gogh obsessing over color is a better starting point than hitting shuffle and hoping.
* Is it useful in a real workflow, or just nice to look at? Would you reach for it on an actual project?
* What is missing? A painter, an era, an export format, a filter you expected and couldn't find.
* Where does it fall short next to the tools you already use (Coolors, Color Hunt, Adobe, etc.)?
* Anything confusing, slow, or just plain broken?
What I'd really love is to make this something designers or art students keep open in a tab, not just a fun thing to click through once. Tell me what it takes to get there.