Khroma
Free AI color-palette generator that learns your taste in-browser
Overview
Khroma is a free, browser-based tool that trains on 50 colors you pick, then generates an unlimited feed of personalized palettes, gradients, and type pairings with built-in WCAG accessibility ratings.
Pricing
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What you can produce with Khroma
- Personalized palette generation trained on 50 liked/blocked colors
- Palette, gradient, typography and image-overlay preview modes
- WCAG AA/AAA contrast ratings per combination
- Search/filter by hue, tint, hex and RGB
- Unlimited saved collections
- Runs entirely in-browser, no install
ASEAN Perspective
Khroma in Southeast Asia
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Khroma is a one-person side project, built by product designer George Hastings, that solves a narrow, real problem well: picking a color palette when you're starting from nothing. You train it by liking or blocking 50 colors, and it generates an endless, searchable feed of combinations across palette, gradient, typography, and photo-overlay views, each tagged with hex/RGB values and a WCAG accessibility rating.
It's free, with no account wall blocking the core generator, and runs entirely in-browser. The scope is deliberately small: this is a discovery tool for individual designers, not a team color-system manager, and there's no API, no export-to-Figma pipeline, and no versioning for a design system. Treat it as a bookmark you reach for during the blank-canvas moment of a project, not a platform you build a workflow around. For UI/UX designers and front-end developers who want fast, personalized palette ideas with accessibility built in, it's hard to beat at the price.
What people say
Khroma doesn't have a footprint on the usual review platforms. Slashdot's listing shows zero user reviews, and there's no G2, Capterra, or Trustpilot presence at all, which tracks for a free single-purpose tool built and maintained by one designer rather than a company selling seats. What exists instead is a decade-plus of design-press write-ups (CareerFoundry, Hack Design, Design Matters) treating it as a staple recommendation in bookmark-worthy design tool lists, plus scattered practitioner commentary.
The mechanism gets consistent praise: you like or block 50 colors, Khroma trains a lightweight model on your choices, and the generator feed becomes noticeably more relevant to your taste after that. Several write-ups specifically call out that this personalization is what separates it from a generic palette generator. The accessibility layer is also flagged as a genuine differentiator: every combination ships with hex/RGB values and a WCAG contrast rating (AA/AAA, normal and large text), filterable directly in the results, which most competing random-palette tools don't offer out of the box.
The friction that shows up in practitioner commentary is decision fatigue: with an effectively infinite, algorithmically generated feed, some users report scrolling for a long time before landing on a combination worth saving, and there's limited manual control to nudge a specific hue once the model has started generating. It's also a strictly personal tool: there's no team library, no shared brand-palette workflow, and no way to lock a base color and iterate around it the way you can in more structured tools.
Because it's a free, one-designer project, creator George Hastings is a New York-based product designer now leading design at Attune Insurance, there's also no roadmap commitment or support channel beyond whatever attention he gives it, worth knowing if you want a tool with a company behind it rather than a bookmark that might quietly stop being maintained.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Khroma's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Khroma unless explicitly stated.
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