ColorDesigner

Overview

ColorDesigner is a color-tools platform for building palettes, exploring harmonies and creating gradients. Its tools can help homeowners and DIY painters develop a colour direction for a room or project, though the listed features focus on digital colour work rather than specifying a paint product for a particular surface.

The site lists 13 tools, including a palette builder, gradient generator, color mixer and wheel, color converter, image palette extraction and image color picker, plus a contrast checker and a compare-colors tool. Palette methods include both rule-based harmonies and image extraction. ColorDesigner also lists print color support, but the available details do not specify how that support works.

The Palette Builder can create tints, shades and tones, as well as complementary, analogous, split-complementary, triadic and tetradic harmonies. These options let you explore variations and relationships among colours before deciding what to investigate further for a real painting job.

Key features

Palette making and colour exploration

Saved palettes are available on both plans, with different limits. The Free plan allows up to five saved palettes and five saved colours, and one project. Pro removes those storage limits. Pro also adds palette variations, multi-color gradients and a more advanced picker for LCH, LAB, OKLCH and OKLAB.

Colour formats and checks

Free includes HEX export. Pro adds RGB, HSL, LAB, LCH, OKLAB and OKLCH, alongside HEX. The feature list includes a Color Blindness Simulator and Color Contrast Checker on Pro; accessibility checks are among the listed capabilities.

Image and design-tool workflows

Image palette extraction and an image color picker can help you draw a palette from an image. The Figma plugin generates tints, shades and harmonies from selected layers or local styles, and can create stepped gradients. It supports solid fills only. The Pro Photoshop extension includes a color wheel, OKLCH support, harmonies and stepped gradients with hue interpolation across multiple colour spaces.

Pricing

ColorDesigner is freemium. The Free plan costs 0.00 USD per free, billed excluding tax. It includes ads, access to 12 free tools, savings of up to five colours and five palettes, one project and HEX export.

Pro is listed at 3.10 USD per year for an annual subscription, billed excluding tax. It removes ads and provides unlimited saved colours, palettes and projects, additional export formats, palette variations, multi-color gradients, the Color Blindness Simulator, the Color Contrast Checker and the advanced colour picker. The pricing note describes paid access as from $3.10/mo (annual); the plan listing separately states 3.10 USD per year.

Subscription plans include a 14-day free trial. The one-time payment option does not include a trial. ColorDesigner says payments are powered by Paddle and that credit-card details are stored on Paddle's servers. Its refund policy directs refund requests to [email protected].

Platforms

ColorDesigner is available as a web product and extension. Its integrations include the Figma plugin and a Pro Photoshop extension. The Figma plugin's gradient and harmony features apply to selected layers or local styles, and it works with solid fills only.

Who it's for

ColorDesigner may suit DIY painters who want to explore palette combinations, make variations from a reference image or compare digital colours before narrowing choices. Its colour harmonies, image tools and export formats support colour planning, but the listed details do not establish paint matching, product recommendations or surface-specific guidance. For a wall, floor or other real surface, treat its output as part of choosing a colour direction rather than as confirmation of a paint or coating specification.

Pros and cons

• Pros: A broad collection of palette, gradient, mixing, image and colour-checking tools.
• Pros: Multiple harmony types, image palette extraction, and a range of Pro export formats.
• Pros: The Free plan includes palette and colour saving, a project and HEX export.
• Cons: Free storage is limited to five colours, five palettes and one project.
• Cons: The Figma plugin supports solid fills only.
• Cons: The listed features focus on digital colour work, without describing paint matching or recommendations for particular surfaces.

Alternatives

For more options, see our Colour palette tools list. Other products to consider include Pantone Connect Palette Generator, Coolors, KColor, Color Palette Generator AI, ColorKit, Colorfool, Colora and Designsystemet Theme Builder.

Verdict

ColorDesigner offers useful ways to generate, refine and save digital palettes, with a free tier for basic exploration and Pro features for broader exports and unlimited storage. It can help DIY painters think through colour combinations, but the available information does not say that its digital colours correspond to specific paints or coatings. Use it to shape a palette, then confirm product and colour choices for the surface you intend to paint.