Coolors alternative

Omoro vs Coolors

Is there a palette tool where the colours come with the style they belong to? This page answers it plainly: what Coolors is for, what it does well, where it stops, and what Omoro adds beside it.

What Coolors is

A colour palette generator: press the space bar for a new five-colour palette, lock the ones you like, export the hex codes.

  • Fast: a new palette every keypress
  • Exports to every format a designer needs
  • Image-to-palette, contrast checking and colour-blindness preview
  • A big trending-palettes feed

Where it stops

Coolors generates palettes with no style attached. It can hand you five colours that go together, but not why they belong to Bauhaus rather than Memphis, or what typeface, material and period go with them. The palette arrives alone.

What Omoro is

Omoro is a visual research system: 224 named design styles, each taken apart into its palette, typefaces, materials, history and where it shows up in real work. The library is open to everyone without an account; the Studio, where your own references become one directable style, opens to the waitlist.

Side by side

CoolorsOmoro
Built forGenerating and adjusting palettesPalettes as one part of a documented style
PalettesUnlimited, generated660 named palettes, each tied to a style
Why these coloursNot explainedEvery palette belongs to a style with its history
TypographyNoneFont pairings that match the palette's style
Apply to a photoImage to palettePalette onto a photo: duotone, gradient map, wash, with a LUT export
TrendsTrending palettesTrending styles, with the palettes inside them
Free tierFree with ads and limitsThe whole library, no account

Which to use

Keep Coolors. Keep Coolors for quick generation and export. Nothing is faster.

Add Omoro. Add Omoro when the palette needs a reason: pick the style first and the colours come with their typefaces, materials and history.

Pricing

Coolors is free with ads, with a paid Pro tier. Omoro's library is free without an account.

What is coming

Next in the Studio, opening to the waitlist first: image and video generation from a style, collage building, inpainting, reference saving and taste detection.

Start with the library

224 styles and 660 palettes, free, no account. See what a documented style looks like before you decide anything.

Browse the stylesOpen one: BauhausThe palettesThe timeline