Swatches lie
Five squares side by side say nothing about how a colour behaves as a button, a link, a chart line or 14px body text.
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A palette that looks perfect as five swatches can fall apart on a real button, chart or dark screen. Palette Atlas shows every palette on a live website, app, dashboard and brand kit, with neutrals, contrast checks and developer-ready exports built in.
Most teams pick colours from a mood board and find the problems after launch, when changing them means redesigning screens, reprinting cards and re-exporting every asset.
Five squares side by side say nothing about how a colour behaves as a button, a link, a chart line or 14px body text.
Text that reads fine on your bright monitor can fail accessibility checks, and becomes unreadable on a phone in sunlight.
Whites, greys and near-blacks carry most of an interface, yet most palettes leave them out, so every screen invents its own.
Colours tuned for white backgrounds turn neon or muddy on dark ones, and gradients between clashing hues go grey in the middle.
The same five steps our designers use on client brands, built into the tool above so you can run them on your own shortlist.
Try it on your shortlistBrowse by mood and tone (light, pastel, vivid, muted or dark) and shortlist the palettes that sound like your brand.
Every palette comes with a white-to-black scale, in pure grey or tinted towards your main hue, so layouts stay calm.
Primary, secondary and accent roles rotate every few seconds, so you see each colour doing each job before you decide.
Check the palette on a website, a mobile app, a dashboard and a brand kit, in light and dark, with contrast grades for text, buttons and links.
Copy CSS variables, a Tailwind config, SCSS or JSON in one click, neutrals included.