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Realtime Colors
Palette previewer on a real page
FreeDesign tools, color & typerealtimecolors.com
What it is
Applies your text, background, primary, secondary and accent colours to a full mock landing page live, so you judge a palette in situ instead of as five swatches. Also sets heading and body fonts from Google Fonts, applies a type scale, and reports AA/AAA contrast as you go.
Why it earns a slot
Kills the classic mistake of choosing a palette that looks great as swatches and awful as an actual page. Exports to CSS variables, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, daisyUI and more, so the result drops into your project.
Know before you commit
Exports assume a fresh project and use the tool's own variable names — expect a rename pass when pasting into an existing design system.
Neighbourhood
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