What is KColor? A quick overview of the color toolkit

KColor is a modern color palette tool and design tool built for developers, designers, and creators who care about color. It’s more than just a color generator, KColor helps you build accessible, scalable, and beautiful palettes tailored to your needs.

What is kColor?

KColor is a powerful browser-based app for creating, editing, and exporting color palettes. Designed for speed and flexibility, it offers a full set of tools for:

  • Generating color palettes from scratch, from an image and from many other sources
  • Genrating tints, shades, gradients, and monochrome based color palettes
  • Ensuring accessibility with built-in WCAG/APCA contrast checking and color blind simulation
  • Exporting in formats like Hex, RGB, Tailwind, SCSS, and many more

Whether you are designing a new UI, tweaking a brand identity, or experimenting with color theory, KColor is the color generator that helps you get there faster.

Why use this color palette tool?

  • Accessible by Default: Built-in contrast checker (WCAG 2 + APCA)
  • Flexible Exports: Tailwind config, CSS variables, JSON, etc.
  • Smart Editing: Lock, sort, interpolate, and rearrange colors with ease
  • Time-Saving Shortcuts: Copy swatches, regenerate palettes, and use keyboard controls
  • No Signup Needed: Start generating colors instantly

Features at a glance

  • Generate palettes from a base color, an image, Google search or ask AI
  • Explore color theory with analogous, complementary, triadic and other modes
  • Simulate color blindness for accessible design
  • Save, Pin and share palettes via short URLs or the Figma plugin
  • Deep integration with frameworks like Tailwind and Bootstrap

Start creating at kcolor.co/generate — it’s free, fast, and no login is required.