Random colors for design, art and games
The random color generator gives you a completely random color with its HEX, RGB and HSL codes, or a palette of five colors that work together. Press Generate or tap the space bar as many times as you like.
In palette mode, pick a harmony – analogous, complementary, triadic or monochrome – and lock the colors you want to keep while the others change. Click any swatch to copy its HEX code. Your last palette and recent colors are remembered in this browser only.
How to use
- Choose Single color or Palette.
- For palettes, pick a harmony (or keep it random).
- Press Generate or the space bar.
- Tap the lock on a swatch to keep it; click a swatch or a code to copy it.
- Recent colors stay in the history – click one to copy it again.
Ideas for using it
- Design inspiration. start a website, logo or slide deck from a fresh palette.
- Art challenges. draw or paint using only the five generated colors.
- Classroom. teach color theory: what do complementary or analogous colors look like?
- Games. “find something in the room that is this color” – a quick game for kids.
HEX, RGB and HSL in plain words
- HEX – a six-character code like
#3D58FFused in web design; pairs of characters stand for red, green and blue. - RGB – the same color as three numbers from 0 to 255 for red, green and blue.
- HSL – hue (0–360° around the color wheel), saturation and lightness in percent; handy for making lighter or darker versions.
In single-color mode every one of the 16.7 million RGB colors (256 × 256 × 256) can come up. Palette harmonies keep saturation and lightness in a pleasant range so the colors look good together.