Turn great art into your next colour palette

Collect public-domain artworks on a moodboard. Every piece gives its colours, and you get one palette ready for Tailwind, CSS or JSON.

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A vast autumn scene with two very small figures in Indigenous clothing standing on a cliff overlooking a massive waterfall in the distance. — **Distant View of Niagara Falls** Thomas Cole, 1830

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Find art

Search the Art Institute of Chicago by artist, period or medium. Public-domain works only.

Build a board

Add artworks to a moodboard and drag them into the order you like.

Get your palette

Five colours are pulled from every artwork, merged into one palette and checked for readable contrast.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte

Example board

Five paintings, one palette

Text on background

AA pass

12.4:1

AA pass

8.0:1

AA pass

7.1:1

AA pass

7.0:1

Fails

1.1:1

Fails

1.1:1

Paste it into your project

The merged palette, written for the tool you already use.

board-1 #6d7c79
board-2 #567891
board-3 #454844
board-4 #a9aba2
board-5 #e7dfc7

@theme {
  --color-board-1: #6d7c79;
  --color-board-2: #567891;
  --color-board-3: #454844;
  --color-board-4: #a9aba2;
  --color-board-5: #e7dfc7;
}

:root {
  --board-1: #6d7c79;
  --board-2: #567891;
  --board-3: #454844;
  --board-4: #a9aba2;
  --board-5: #e7dfc7;
}

{
    "board-1": "#6d7c79",
    "board-2": "#567891",
    "board-3": "#454844",
    "board-4": "#a9aba2",
    "board-5": "#e7dfc7"
}

Every artwork is one tile. Your board is the mosaic.

A student project at Thomas More, built on the open collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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