Free tool
A palette
for your event.
Five values, from ground to accent — built to hold together across paper, flowers and a room, rather than to look good as five squares.
How do I choose an event colour palette?
Start from one dominant ground, add two supporting tones close to it, then one accent that is genuinely different. Five values is the working maximum. Palettes fail when every colour is equally strong — the eye needs somewhere to rest before it can notice the accent.
Generate one.
Your palette
The same choices always produce the same palette, so you can come back to it. Runs entirely in your browser.
On print values. Take the hex codes to your printer and ask them to convert against your actual stock rather than converting yourself. The same hex prints noticeably differently on uncoated and coated paper, and a browser cannot know which you are using — this is the single commonest reason a printed suite disappoints against the screen proof.
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How to use five colours.
- The ground does most of the work — paper, linen, the walls. It should be the quietest thing in the palette.
- Two supporting tones sit close to the ground and carry secondary elements: envelope liners, menus, napkins.
- One accent is genuinely different and used sparingly — a rule on the invitation, a ribbon, the flowers. Used everywhere it stops being an accent.
- One deep tone for type and contrast. Rarely black; a very dark version of your ground almost always reads better.
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Common questions
Can I use more than five colours?
Do the flowers have to match exactly?
Will this match my venue?
A palette is a start, not a direction.
Evorrah's process begins with two moodboard worlds — colour, type, materials and photography together — because colour on its own does not tell you what an event will feel like.
See how a direction is made