Palette Preview

Why Use Palette Preview?

Choosing colors is one thing — seeing them in context is another. Our Palette Preview system lets you test your color palette on real UI components before committing to a design decision. Enter comma-separated hex colors and instantly see how they look on buttons, cards, dashboard widgets, hero sections, and mobile app interfaces.

Switch between preview modes with one click. Each mode renders your palette on a different set of components, so you can evaluate how your colors perform across your entire design system. This is especially useful for designers building brand guidelines, developers setting up theme tokens, or anyone creating a new color scheme.

What you can preview

The Palette Preview tool ships with five pre-built component sets: a marketing landing page (hero, features grid, testimonial, CTA), a SaaS dashboard (sidebar, top nav, data table, metrics cards), an e-commerce product page (gallery, product info, add-to-cart, reviews), a mobile app screen (bottom nav, content list, action sheet), and a forms UI (input fields, validation states, buttons, helper text). Each preview is fully interactive — you can click buttons, hover cards, and see how focus rings render on your palette.

How to use palette preview

Start by pasting 2-8 hex colors into the input (or load a saved palette from the library). The preview updates instantly as you type, so you can iterate quickly. Switch between the five preview modes using the tab bar above the canvas. Use the light/dark toggle to verify your palette works in both themes — a critical step for modern web apps that support user-preferred color schemes. When you're happy with the result, click the Export button to copy CSS variables, Tailwind config, or design tokens for the palette you've been iterating on.

Why preview in context

Color theory charts and isolated swatches can mislead you about how a palette will actually feel in a real interface. Two complementary colors that look balanced on a color wheel might fight for attention when used as background and button on a dashboard. Preview in context reveals these problems before you commit to a design system, and it's the single best way to validate color choices before they reach production. Many of the most-cited UI design bugs — poor contrast on hover states, illegible text on saturated backgrounds, missing focus indicators — would have been caught by even a quick palette preview pass.