Random Color Generator
Generate random hex colors with a live preview. Useful when you need a starting point for a palette, a placeholder colour, or a tag colour nobody has used yet.
Random colors
Press Generate to get a result.
About the Random Color Generator
A starting point, not a palette
Fully random colours are rarely a finished palette — they have no relationship to each other, which is exactly what a palette needs. What they are good for is breaking a habit. Designers default to the same few hues, and a random swatch drags you somewhere you would not have gone, after which you can adjust it into something usable.
The other honest use is placeholders: tag colours, avatar backgrounds, chart series before the real design lands.
Reading a hex code
A hex colour is three pairs of hexadecimal digits: red, green, blue, each from 00 to FF. #FF0000 is pure red, #000000 black, #FFFFFF white. When all three pairs are equal you get a grey. Generating 16,777,216 possible values uniformly means most results land in the muddy middle, which is why a random colour so often looks like an unremarkable olive or mauve.