About this tool
About the Color Wheel
On the Color Wheel, each segment is painted in the color it represents, so what you see spinning is an actual palette, not a list of words. It ships with ten swatches spanning the spectrum plus brown and gray, and when the wheel stops you can copy the winner's hex code, like #2E5BFF for blue, straight into your design tool.
Random color picks are surprisingly useful as constraints. Artists spin to set the dominant color of a daily sketch, designers spin to escape their habit of reaching for the same blue, and teachers spin to assign team colors without debate. Because the constraint comes from outside your own taste, it pushes work somewhere you would not have chosen deliberately.


