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Create palettes, explore color relationships, preview real designs, check accessibility and export colors you can actually use.

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What do you want to do with color?

Start with the task in front of you. Every tool is free, and you can move a promising color or palette into a larger workflow when you need more control.

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One idea, as much help as you need

From a first color to a working result

Use one focused tool or connect several. Qolorio does not make you learn the whole platform before you can begin.

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Find a direction

Start with an image, a feeling, one known color or a curated palette that gives the project a point of view.

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Shape the palette

Generate, match, mix or refine colors until the set has the range and character your work needs.

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Make it work

Give colors real jobs, preview them in context, test important relationships and export a usable system.

Color Palette Inspiration

See the mood. Keep the exact colors.

Browse visual palette stories with usable HEX values. Open a promising combination in Color Studio when you want to test it as a real system.

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Start immediately. Export or share only when you decide the work is ready to leave the tool.

Built for real decisions

Exact values, practical roles, visible contrast results and clear exports stay close to the creative work.

The Qolorio Guide

Understand what your colors need to do.

Learn how palettes, roles, previews, contrast and export fit together. The guide explains the thinking without requiring a design vocabulary first.

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Color Notes

Latest articles

Practical guidance about palettes, readability, websites and the way color changes in context.

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  • How many colors should a website use?

    How many colors should a website use?

    You start with a background. Then a text color. Then the brand color needs a darker version for hover. The form needs red for errors. Success needs green. Cards need a slightly different background. Borders appear. Someone adds a second accent. Suddenly your neat three-color website has twelve swatches. Is that too many? Usually, no.…

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  • The Best Black Text Colors on White: 8 Readable HEX Codes

    The Best Black Text Colors on White: 8 Readable HEX Codes

    Black text on a white background sounds like the easiest color decision in design. Choose #000000. Done. Except there is a surprising amount of room between pure black and something that merely looks black. A slightly warmer black can make an editorial website feel softer. A blue-black can give a product interface a more technical…

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  • How to Choose Background and Text Colors for a Website

    How to Choose Background and Text Colors for a Website

    Open a new website project and one of the first decisions looks almost suspiciously easy: What color should the page be? White is safe. Black text is readable. Done. Except that a background color does much more than fill empty space. It changes how large the page feels, how strongly other colors appear, how images…

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A more personal starting point

What is your color DNA?

Follow a few instincts and uncover one precise color for yourself, somebody else, a brand or a project. Your answers stay in your browser.

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