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TASK WORKFLOW

Free Design and Color Tools

Move from a rough visual idea to usable, accessible, production-ready design tokens and visuals.

This workflow is built for UI designers, frontend developers, creators, and students. It links only to FastTool pages that pass the current review-public quality gate, so every listed tool has a working interface, supporting content, and clear limits.

Recommended Tool Order

STEP 1

Color Picker

Pick colors with EyeDropper, get HEX/RGB/HSL/CMYK/HWB values, explore harmonies and gradients.

  • EyeDropper API support
  • HEX/RGB/HSL/HWB/CMYK output
  • RGB sliders with live preview
Open Color Picker

STEP 2

Color Wheel & Harmonies

Explore color theory with an interactive wheel, harmony presets, palette intent modes, live UI preview, contrast matrix, shareable URLs, and CSS, JSON, Tailwind, and design-token exports.

  • interactive canvas color wheel with click-to-pick sampling
  • 7 harmony models: complementary, split, triadic, analogous, tetradic, square, monochrome
  • palette intent modes for balanced UI, bold campaigns, soft editorial, and dark products
Open Color Wheel & Harmonies

STEP 4

Color Palette Generator

Generate beautiful color palettes from any base color. Choose from complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, and monochromatic harmonies. Export as CSS variables, Tailwind config, or SCSS. Built-in contrast checker with WCAG AA/AAA compliance.

  • base color picker with hex input
  • 6 harmony types: complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, monochromatic
  • 5-6 colors per palette with HEX/RGB/HSL
Open Color Palette Generator

STEP 5

CSS Gradient Generator

Create stunning CSS gradients with linear, radial, and conic types. Angle slider, up to 8 color stops with position control, 20 beautiful presets, live preview, full-screen mode, and one-click CSS copy with vendor prefixes.

  • linear, radial, and conic gradient types
  • angle slider 0-360 degrees
  • up to 8 color stops with position control
Open CSS Gradient Generator

STEP 6

CSS Gradient Generator

Create stunning CSS gradients with linear, radial, and conic types. Angle slider, up to 8 color stops with position control, 20 beautiful presets, live preview, full-screen mode, and one-click CSS copy with vendor prefixes.

  • linear, radial, and conic gradient types
  • angle slider 0-360 degrees
  • up to 8 color stops with position control
Open CSS Gradient Generator

STEP 7

Matrix Rain Effect Generator

Create polished Matrix-style digital rain visuals with cinematic presets, custom glyphs, colors, trail fade, scanlines, hidden messages, PNG export, frame-sheet export, and agent-ready continuation prompts.

  • 5 professional visual presets
  • 7 character modes plus custom glyphs
  • custom primary, head, and background colors
Open Matrix Rain Effect Generator

STEP 8

WCAG Contrast Checker

Advanced WCAG 2.1 contrast checker with AA/AAA pass/fail badges, color blindness simulation, auto-fix suggestions, live text preview, and random accessible palette generator.

  • WCAG 2.1 contrast ratio calculation
  • AA and AAA pass/fail badges for normal and large text
  • live text preview on colored background
Open WCAG Contrast Checker

STEP 9

Contrast Ratio Checker

Check the WCAG 2.1 color contrast ratio between foreground and background colors. Instantly see if your text passes AA or AAA accessibility standards for normal text, large text, and UI components. Essential for inclusive web design.

  • WCAG 2.1 AA and AAA compliance check
  • separate results for normal text, large text, and UI components
  • supports HEX, RGB, and HSL color input
Open Contrast Ratio Checker

STEP 10

CSS Box Shadow Generator

Create multi-layer CSS box shadows visually with live preview. Add, remove, and customize each shadow layer independently with sliders for X/Y offset, blur, spread, color, and opacity. Choose from 10 presets including neumorphism, material, and layered depth effects. Customize the preview card size, color, and border-radius. Toggle dark/light preview background.

  • multiple shadow layers — add, remove, switch between shadows
  • per-shadow sliders for X offset, Y offset, blur, spread, color, opacity
  • inset shadow toggle per layer
Open CSS Box Shadow Generator

STEP 11

CSS Border Radius Generator

Design CSS border-radius visually with draggable corner handles and per-corner sliders. Toggle between simple 4-value and advanced 8-value (horizontal/vertical per corner) modes. Apply presets like Circle, Pill, Blob, Organic, Drop, and Leaf shapes. Customize preview box background, border, and dimensions.

  • draggable corner handles on live preview for intuitive adjustment
  • individual sliders for each corner: top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left
  • link all corners toggle for uniform radius
Open CSS Border Radius Generator

STEP 13

SVG Path Visualizer

Visualize and debug SVG path d attributes — paste any SVG path data and see it rendered in a canvas with labeled anchor points, control handles, and command breakdown.

  • renders SVG path d attribute in real-time
  • highlights M, L, C, Q, A, Z commands with different colors
  • shows anchor points and control handles
Open SVG Path Visualizer

STEP 14

Tailwind CSS Color Palette

Browse all official Tailwind CSS colors with hex values — click any swatch to copy the hex, RGB value, or Tailwind class name. Filter by color family with instant search.

  • all 22 Tailwind color families
  • shades 50–950 with hex values
  • click to copy hex, RGB, or class name
Open Tailwind CSS Color Palette

STEP 15

Favicon Generator

Create favicons from text or uploaded images. Choose shapes, gradients, fonts, and download a full icon pack with HTML snippet.

  • text or image input
  • square, rounded, circle shapes
  • solid color and gradient backgrounds
Open Favicon Generator

How to Use This Workflow

  1. Pick or extract the base color first.
  2. Choose harmony direction before expanding the palette into scales.
  3. Convert values into the format your project uses.
  4. Check contrast before using colors in text or controls.
  5. Generate gradients, motion backgrounds, and CSS only after the palette passes the accessibility check.

Search Intent Covered

People usually arrive at this page with a specific job to finish, not to browse a directory. This hub is structured around the searches below and points each task to a working tool.

  • color wheel
  • color picker
  • color converter
  • color palette generator
  • matrix rain generator
  • contrast checker
  • css box shadow generator

Quality Notes

These workflow pages are generated from the same review-public tool list used by the sitemap, homepage, tool sidebars, and command palette. If a tool is policy-sensitive or needs a deeper manual audit during review, it is not promoted here.