🎨 Paletteforge
Generate, lock and export brand color palettes — no account, no export limits.
Paletteforge at a glance
| Price | $15, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Coolors Pro at $5.99/mo — roughly $72 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Design & Graphics |
Paletteforge features
🎲 Generate & shuffle palettes
Spacebar-driven random palette generation, five colors at a time.
🔒 Lock colors while regenerating
Keep the ones you like, reroll the rest until the palette clicks.
✅ WCAG contrast checker
Instant AA/AAA pass-fail for any foreground/background pairing in your palette.
📤 Export to CSS, Tailwind, ASE, PNG
Drop straight into a codebase or design tool — no manual re-typing of hex codes.
💾 Saved brand kits
Name and keep multiple palettes per project or client.
🖼️ Extract palette from an image
Upload a logo or photo and pull its dominant colors automatically.
🌈 Shade & tint ramps
Generate a full 50–900 ramp from any base color for design systems.
🔒 Fully offline
No image or color data is ever uploaded — all generation and extraction runs locally.
$15 once — that's the whole pricing page
Coolors Pro charges $5.99/mo — roughly $72 a year, every year. Paletteforge is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Paletteforge inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Paletteforge guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/paletteforge-mvp. The $15 buys the packaged installer and updates.
Are exports ever limited?
No — unlimited palettes, unlimited exports, every format, no tier.
Can it pull colors from an existing logo?
Yes — upload an image and it extracts the dominant palette automatically, entirely on-device.