How do I preview a color palette on a website?

Enter your five brand colors in this color palette preview tool—or click Generate Random Palette. Open the dashboard, landing page, or mobile app mockup to see each color applied to realistic UI. Adjust hex values until the mockup looks balanced, then copy CSS variables or share the URL with your team.

What colors should I use for a website?

Most websites use a primary brand color for navigation and buttons, a secondary color for icons and charts, an accent for CTAs and badges, a light background for page surfaces, and a dark text color for body copy. Use a palette generator to explore harmonies, preview them on mockups here, then validate contrast before launch.

How many colors does a website need?

A focused website palette usually needs five core colors: primary, secondary, accent, background, and text. You can expand with tints and shades for hover states and borders, but five well-chosen roles cover most marketing sites, dashboards, and mobile apps without visual noise.

How do I check if my website colors are accessible?

Body text should meet WCAG AA contrast—at least 4.5:1 against its background. After previewing your palette on mockups, run your text and background hex codes through a contrast checker to confirm buttons, links, and paragraphs pass accessibility guidelines.

Color Palette Preview

Preview your color palette on a real website, dashboard, landing page or mobile app UI

Your palette

Pick your own colors: click any swatch to open the color picker, or type a hex code in the field below each swatch. You can also use Generate Random Palette or load a preset from the page below — every change updates the preview instantly.

Primary

Secondary

Accent

Background

Text

Dashboard Color Preview

See your palette on an admin dashboard with sidebar, stats cards and charts

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Landing Page Color Preview

See your palette on a marketing landing page with hero, features and CTA sections

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Mobile App Color Preview

See your palette on a mobile app UI with navigation, cards and list items

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Which Preview Should You Use?

Each mockup answers a different design question. Use the dashboard preview when you need to judge sidebar chrome, KPI cards, and chart colors for SaaS or admin products. Use the landing page preview for marketing sites where hero contrast, feature bands, and CTA buttons drive conversion. Use the mobile app preview when headers, bottom navigation, and card stacks must read clearly at phone scale.

Start on this hub to set your five palette roles once, then open any mockup with your colors already loaded. Designers validating a rebrand, developers checking tokens before CSS variables ship, and founders approving brand colors without a Figma file all use the same workflow.

Why Preview Colors Before You Design?

Flat color swatches rarely tell the full story. A primary blue that feels confident in a square can look heavy on a sidebar or lost on a hero. Accent oranges that pop in isolation can clash with white cards or compete with secondary blues in charts. Previewing your palette on realistic dashboard, landing page, and mobile mockups shows hierarchy, contrast, and balance the way users will see them—saving hours of rework in Figma before you commit to components, tokens, or production CSS.

How to Use the Color Palette Preview Tool

Enter your 5 brand colors or click Generate Random Palette
Choose a preview type — dashboard, landing page or mobile app
Adjust colors until the mockup looks right
Copy your palette and take it to Figma or your codebase

What Are the 5 Color Roles?

Primary: main brand color for buttons and navigation
Secondary: supporting color for icons and hover states
Accent: highlight color for CTAs and badges
Background: page background, almost always light
Text: body text, must pass WCAG contrast against background — verify with our contrast checker

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I preview a color palette on a website?: Enter your five brand colors in this color palette preview tool—or click Generate Random Palette. Open the dashboard, landing page, or mobile app mockup to see each color applied to realistic UI. Adjust hex values until the mockup looks balanced, then copy CSS variables or share the URL with your team.
What colors should I use for a website?: Most websites use a primary brand color for navigation and buttons, a secondary color for icons and charts, an accent for CTAs and badges, a light background for page surfaces, and a dark text color for body copy. Use a palette generator to explore harmonies, preview them on mockups here, then validate contrast before launch.
How many colors does a website need?: A focused website palette usually needs five core colors: primary, secondary, accent, background, and text. You can expand with tints and shades for hover states and borders, but five well-chosen roles cover most marketing sites, dashboards, and mobile apps without visual noise.
How do I check if my website colors are accessible?: Body text should meet WCAG AA contrast—at least 4.5:1 against its background. After previewing your palette on mockups, run your text and background hex codes through a contrast checker to confirm buttons, links, and paragraphs pass accessibility guidelines.

Build harmonies with the palette generator, expand roles into scales with the tint & shade generator, then preview them on a dashboard, landing page, or mobile app mockup. Confirm accessibility with the contrast checker.