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Palette Inspiration
Generate palettes inspired by 3,000 master painters
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.
About Palette Inspiration on Product Hunt
“Generate palettes inspired by 3,000 master painters”
Palette Inspiration was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #98 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Palette Inspiration competes within Design Tools, Art and Design resources — topics that collectively have 282.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Palette Inspiration performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Palette Inspiration?
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Armen
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.