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I'm not a designer by trade, but twenty years ago I went to art school, and I've kept up art as a hobby.

When I come up with color palettes, it's intuitive and guided by a sense of play and feeling it out. I wouldn't use this.

Do professional designers use tools like this now? Or does this target non-artists? I'm curious.

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This tool is mainly focused on UI design and creating color systems where you have specific requirements for colors like contrast and interchangeability.

Coming up with color families is still somewhat about feeling it out and playing around, but when it comes to then creating scales from these, that's where Atmos comes in handy.

Thanks for the insight!

I hadn't considered measurable requirements.

I use tools like this to generate html codes for colours I want, that make sense together. I don't need tools like this often enough to want to to pay or even sign up for it when there are literally hundreds of identical offerings out there for free.

One I use a lot is: https://colordesigner.io/gradient-generator

I sometimes use Adobe Color (which is very similar to this) to come up with new palettes when I’m stuck and want something different. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s another point of inspiration.

Adobe Color is great. I'm not an art person and completely lack color theory, but I always manage to get some good looking palletes with it.

https://color.adobe.com/

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