Designer
Generate random colors with HEX, RGB, and HSL codes for instant inspiration.
Designer
Click Generate and this random color generator shows one fresh color at a large size with its HEX, RGB and HSL codes, plus a grid of 12 more random colors below it. Every square in the grid copies its HEX on click, so you can grab a color the moment it catches your eye. Use it to break a creative block, choose placeholder colors for a prototype, or find an unexpected starting point you would never have picked on purpose.
Treat a random color as a hue suggestion, not a final answer. Once one catches your eye, copy its HSL values and adjust the saturation and lightness to suit your project, or paste it into the Color Shades Generator to build a usable range around it. If you need random colors in your own code that look like one family, randomize only the hue and keep saturation and lightness fixed.
FAQ
Most random color generators pick a random value from 0 to 255 for each of red, green and blue, or one random number from 0 to 16,777,215 written as six hex digits. The result is then displayed in formats such as HEX, RGB and HSL. Because there are so many possibilities, you will rarely see the same color twice.
There are 16,777,216 six-digit HEX colors, because each of the three channels has 256 possible values and 256 × 256 × 256 = 16,777,216. They run from #000000 (black) to #FFFFFF (white). The two extra alpha digits of an 8-digit code multiply that by another 256 levels of transparency.
A common one-liner is '#' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 16777216).toString(16).padStart(6, '0'). Math.random() returns a number below 1, multiplying by 16,777,216 covers every possible color, and padStart keeps leading zeros so the code always has six digits.
A random color generator gives you independent colors with no relationship between them, which is ideal for surprise and variety. A random palette generator builds a set of colors from a harmony rule so they work together. Use this tool for single picks and the Random Color Palette Generator when you need a matching group.