Creating color palettes is hard

Whenever I designed a website, I always got hung up on colors. Of course, I tried searching for help online but all I ever found were color websites that were like

These 5 magic colors are all you need for your design!

I've used so many of those color palette generators, and they have never worked for me and I never knew why.

But then I came across a book from the creators of Tailwind CSS. If you haven't heard of Tailwind yet, you should definitely check it out! It makes writing CSS so much faster and more enjoyable.

Back to the book: It's called Refactoring UI and it has been a real game changer for me. It's full of practical advice on how to make your website designs look better and it has a whole chapter on color.

I've tried to utilize the knowledge from that chapter and created some color palettes that were actually usable and resulted in better-looking designs. But the process was still very time-consuming. Creating a color palette manually from scratch took between 5 and 10 minutes.

So I thought to myself: "Why not create a tool that does this for me?".

And that's how you turn a five-hour task into a one and a half month task. Because I'm a programmer. And that's what we do. ~Michael Reeves

And with that legendary quote Paletti was born.

Now all that's left is that you give it a try. I hope you find it as useful as I do. If you want a quick start, take a look at the Getting Started page.