Our mission
Color Pick was created to reduce the friction between choosing attractive colors and preparing them for real work. Instead of separating palette discovery, accessibility checks, semantic role mapping, print planning, and developer exports across many tools, Color Pick connects those steps in one browser-based workflow.
The goal is not to replace professional judgment. The goal is to make common color decisions easier to inspect, explain, revise, and hand off.
What Color Pick does
You can create palettes from a visual picker, an uploaded image, harmony rules, gradients, curated templates, or the independent Color Pick Spot Color System. You can then test color pairs, map semantic roles, compare alternatives, generate accessible adjustments, preview print approximations, and export files for design and development workflows.
- 450 curated palette templates across nine categories.
- 1,386 independent CPS color references across 36 families.
- HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, OKLCH, and CIE Lab utilities.
- Contrast checks, color-vision previews, and palette compatibility analysis.
- CSS, Tailwind, JSON, SVG, PNG, and design-system exports.
- Local project folders, shareable state, QR transfer, and daily challenges.
Color Pick Spot Color System
CPS is a first-party digital reference system developed for Color Pick. Its codes, families, naming system, metadata, and generated values are independent and do not reproduce or claim equivalence with proprietary commercial color libraries.
CPS helps users search, compare, and organize digital color references. Its CMYK and print-related values are planning approximations, not physical ink formulas or certified production standards.
Privacy by design
Most Color Pick features run directly in your browser. Images selected for color extraction are processed locally rather than uploaded to a Color Pick server. Saved palettes, challenge progress, and preferences may use browser storage, while larger local projects use IndexedDB.
No account is required. You remain in control of project exports, share links, QR codes, and browser data. Our Privacy Policy explains these practices in detail.
How recommendations work
Readiness scores, Smart Fix suggestions, color-pair checks, CPS matching, and print guidance are generated with deterministic color calculations and documented heuristics. They are not hidden AI judgments and do not require sending a private palette to a language model.
We explain the main calculations, scoring boundaries, and known limitations on the Color Methodology page.
Funding and independence
Color Pick is free to use. Optional donations may help support hosting, testing, maintenance, and future tools. A donation does not unlock features, create priority access, or influence recommendations.
Color Pick may display advertising in the future. Advertising will be visually separated from tool controls and will not determine palette rankings, CPS matches, readiness scores, or editorial guidance. See the Advertising and Funding Policy.
Important limitations
Color appearance depends on displays, ambient lighting, device settings, printers, inks, paper, calibration, and color profiles. Automated accessibility checks can evaluate defined color pairs, but they cannot certify an entire interface or document. Color-vision tools are educational design aids, not medical tests.
For regulated, safety-critical, high-volume print, or formal accessibility work, use qualified professional review and production proofing.