Design & Creative
Colorfool
Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark checked 2026-10-17 · unchanged since 2026-09-24 — deterministic & reproducible
Free color palette generator with accessibility tools and no paywalled features.
Colorfool at a glance
Colorfool is a free web tool that lets designers and developers generate, check, and export color palettes with built-in accessibility features.
Good for
- Checking a palette's WCAG contrast ratios and how it looks under colorblind simulation
- Pulling a color palette out of an image directly in the browser without uploading it
- Exporting a finished palette as CSS variables, SCSS, Tailwind config, or JSON for a project
Pricing
Free forever, no paywall or Pro tier.
Questions people ask
Is Colorfool free to use?
Yes, it's free forever, including the accessibility features like WCAG contrast checking and colorblind simulation, which are not locked behind a paid tier.
Can I see how my palette looks before using it?
Yes, Colorfool has a live UI preview that shows your palette applied to a hero section, dashboard, buttons, and a form.
Can I generate a palette using AI?
Yes, the AI generator accepts conversational prompts, like describing a mood or asking to make it warmer, to create and refine palettes.
How do I get a palette out of an image?
Colorfool includes a browser-based color scanner that extracts a palette from any image without uploading it.
What formats can I export a palette in?
You can export real code as CSS variables, SCSS, Tailwind config, or JSON.
Written by Legit.Show from colorfool.co on 2026-09-30. It does not change the score.
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Legit.Show scored Colorfool 71/100 on 2026-10-17, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/colorfool-co/2026-10-17
Is Colorfool production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Colorfool 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Colorfool (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 78/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 45/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 0/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 87/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 213 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
designers · developers · accessibility advocates · UI/UX professionals · brand teams
Pricing
Free forever, no paywall or Pro tier
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from colorfool.co's own website on 2026-08-20.
- Operator
- Colorfool, as named in colorfool.co's terms, privacy page or footer.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-17.
Put together from public information, without Colorfool's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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