Khroma
Khroma is a free AI colour palette generator by designer Gal Shir. You pick the colours you like, and a neural network trained on thousands of designs from the web suggests palettes, gradients, type pairings and images that match your taste. It is one of the quickest ways to get out of a colour rut.
Quick Facts
| Developer | Gal Shir |
|---|---|
| First released | 2019 |
| Latest version | See official website |
| Platform | Web based |
| Training data | AI trained on colors from thousands of human-made designs |
| License | Proprietary; free to use |
| Pricing | Free |
What is Khroma?
Khroma is a colour tool with a simple but clever premise: instead of feeding you random palettes, it learns what you like. When you first visit, the site shows you a long series of colours and asks you to pick the ones you love, usually around fifty, and that becomes the seed of your personal colour taste.
Behind the scenes, a neural network was trained on the colours found in thousands of designs uploaded to the web. Once it knows your preferences, it generates colour combinations that are statistically likely to work, drawing on patterns from real design work rather than guesswork.
The output is organized into practical formats: palettes, gradients, typography pairings and even images. Every result shows you how the colours behave together, which makes Khroma a great thinking tool for brand work, UI design and illustration.
Key Features
- Personal taste learning from the colours you pick
- AI trained on thousands of real human-made designs
- Generated palettes, gradients and type pairings
- Colour searchable by hue, saturation and brightness
- Copy hex codes and CSS values with one click
- Companion images that show palettes in action
- Completely free with no account required
How to get started
Just open khroma.co in your browser. The onboarding asks you to select the colours you like from a rapid sequence of choices, and once you finish, the generator starts producing combinations tuned to your taste.
You can explore different output types, search for specific hues, and copy any colour's hex code straight into your design tool. No signup, no install, no cost.
- Open khroma.co in your browser
- Pick the colours you like during onboarding
- Browse generated palettes, gradients and type pairings
- Search by hue or brightness to narrow results
- Copy hex codes or CSS values into your project
Use cases
- Kicking off brand identity work with a fresh palette
- Finding UI colour schemes that feel cohesive
- Generating gradient pairs for buttons and backgrounds
- Choosing text and background combinations with good contrast
- Exploring colour directions for illustrations and posters
Pricing and licensing
Khroma is free to use. There is no subscription, no paid tier and no account required, which makes it one of the most accessible colour tools around.
It is a passion project by designer Gal Shir, supported as a free resource for the design community. You can reuse the palettes you find in your own commercial work without restriction.
Pros and cons
Khroma's charm is that it combines AI with personal taste instead of replacing it. The results are unusually harmonious because they are drawn from real design patterns, and the interface is fast and pleasant to explore.
The limitations are that it generates suggestions rather than full design systems, and it has stayed a fairly simple tool since launch. For deep palette management or accessibility checking, you will want to pair it with a more heavyweight colour tool.
Alternatives
- Coolors: fast palette generator with a huge community library
- Colormind: AI colour generator trained on artwork and photography
- Adobe Color: palette creation with colour rule presets
- Material Design Color Tool: palettes tuned for Material Design apps