📋 About Khroma
Khroma is an AI-powered color palette generation tool built by the team at Khroma and launched in 2018. Designed specifically for designers and creatives, it helps you discover, search, and save color combinations that align with your personal aesthetic preferences. The tool was created to solve one of the most time-consuming challenges in design work — finding color palettes that are both visually appealing and contextually appropriate for a project.
The technology behind Khroma is built on a neural network that you personally train by selecting 50 colors you love from a curated set of options. Once trained, the algorithm uses your preferences to generate an infinite number of color palettes tailored specifically to your taste. This personalized approach means that every palette you see is shaped by your own color sensibilities rather than generic recommendations, making the suggestions feel remarkably intuitive and relevant to your creative style.
Among Khroma's standout features, the palette generator allows you to browse color combinations across four different viewing formats — typography, gradient, image, and palette — giving you a realistic preview of how colors will actually look in context. You can also search palettes by hue, tint, value, color name, or even hex code, making it easy to find exactly what you need without endless scrolling. Additionally, you can save your favorite combinations to a personal library, allowing you to reference and export them throughout your design projects with ease.
Khroma is entirely free to use, with no paid tiers or premium subscription options currently available, making it accessible to designers at every level of their career. Whether you are a student exploring color theory for the first time or a seasoned professional working on branding projects, you can access the full feature set without any cost barrier. This open accessibility makes it a particularly attractive choice for freelancers and independent creatives who need powerful tools without added overhead expenses.
In 2026, Khroma continues to be widely used by graphic designers, UI/UX professionals, brand strategists, and digital artists who rely on it as a reliable starting point in the color selection process. You can see its real-world impact in how quickly designers generate on-brand color systems, cutting down what used to be hours of color research into just minutes. Its personalized AI model has helped shift industry expectations around creative tools, proving that machine learning can genuinely enhance individual artistic expression rather than replace it.
