ColourMixer
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Paint palette generator

Build your own palette of colours you can actually mix. Tie them together with a mother colour, generate a free palette, or pick every colour yourself.

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1Mother colour palette

Tick the colours you want. Each one already has the mother mixed in, so they all tie together.

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2Free palette

Colours that work well together, no mother. Keep the ones you like, remove the rest, refresh for new ones.

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3Your own palette

Pick every colour yourself from the library. No mother, no generator: just the colours you want, each mixed from your paints.

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Saved palettes

Palettes you save appear here, each with the recipes for its colours.

Your paints

Every colour and recipe here is mixed from these. Add or remove a tube and the palettes re-mix.

The library and every recipe here are mixed from just these.

PY35Cadmium Yellow
PY3Lemon Yellow
PR108Cadmium Red
PR122Quinacridone Magenta
PB29Ultramarine Blue
PB15Phthalo Blue
PW6Titanium White

Palettes you can actually mix

A palette generator for painters: every colour it suggests comes with a recipe from the tubes you own. Start from a mother colour, a single colour mixed a little into every other one so the whole palette hangs together. Or generate a free palette, or pick every colour yourself. Saved palettes stay in your browser with the recipe for each colour.

What is a mother colour?

Painters often add a small amount of one colour to every mix on the palette. It pulls the colours towards each other, so a painting reads as one light and one moment rather than a collection of separate colours. A warm ochre mother gives late-afternoon warmth; a blue-grey gives an overcast calm.