Top 10 Color Tools for Web Designers in 2025 (Free and Easy!)

These tools speed up palette creation, contrast checking, and color exploration.

1. HexTints — fast tints/shades with copy on click.
2. A great color picker (system/native or browser devtools).
3. A contrast checker (WCAG compliant).
4. A color blindness simulator.
5. Palette inspiration galleries.
6. OKLCH/OKLab converters.
7. Gradient editors.
8. Token management tools.
9. Design tool plugins for color systems.
10. Browser extensions for sampling/in‑page previews.

Start with HexTints to build a dependable scale, then validate with a contrast checker.