Color Palette

Color Hunt (colorhunt.co) is the most popular trending-palette gallery on the web — a curated feed of 4-color palettes submitted by designers, voted on by the community, and organized into trending + new + popular tabs. Founded in 2015 by Gal Shir and now run as one of the cornerstone free color resources alongside Coolors + Adobe Color + the broader color tool ecosystem. If you've ever needed quick color inspiration and you're tired of generating random palettes, Color Hunt's curated feed is the better path. What you get: gallery of 4-color palettes (curated and submitted), trending + new + popular sorting, browse by collection (pastel, neon, vintage, dark, summer, etc.), one-click copy of HEX codes, save palettes to your account, palette of the day delivered via newsletter, mobile apps (iOS + Android). Free with no signup required to browse; account creation unlocks saving + commenting. The community-curated angle means you're seeing palettes other designers found beautiful enough to share, not algorithmically-generated combinations. Where Color Hunt fits: Coolors.co (covered above) is the dominant palette generator + community — wider feature set (generation + extraction + utilities), more comprehensive. Color Hunt is purely the gallery + community side — narrower scope, focused on browsing curated palettes. Adobe Color combines generation + community palettes from Behance. Branition Colors (covered above) curates brand-suitable palettes specifically. Color Hunt sits as the go-to gallery for quick trending-palette inspiration — what you reach for when you don't want to generate, just browse. Where it's not for you: if you want palette generation tools (spacebar-roll, lock-and-re-roll), Coolors is more powerful. If you want brand-suitable palettes filtered for real brand use, Branition Colors is more focused. If you want 5-color palettes (the de facto standard for design systems), Color Hunt's 4-color limit may feel constraining — most Color Hunt palettes can be extended with neutrals though. Pricing: free. No paid tier exists meaningfully — Color Hunt monetizes through ads + their book + Patreon + occasional merch. The browse experience is free + clean enough to be the default. Honest take: Color Hunt is the indie-design web at its best — built by Gal Shir as a passion project, kept free + clean, became one of the most-bookmarked design tools without ever VC-funding or enshittifying. If you do any visual design and you don't have Color Hunt bookmarked, fix that today. Pair with Coolors for generation, Branition for brand work, and Color Hunt as your trending-inspiration source.