My Color Taste: A Free Color Website I Made for Painters and Color Lovers
October 28, 2026
Find the colors you keep coming back to, make palettes from paintings, and play a little color game every day.
For years I've been collecting pictures I love: paintings, rooms, outfits, a photo of a hillside at the right time of day. Some live on Pinterest, some in my phone, and the best ones end up glued into my color inspiration book. At some point I started to wonder what all those pictures have in common. I could feel there was a thread running through them, but I couldn't name it.
Color is also the part of my painting I've been least sure of. So I decided to build something that would show me my own color taste, plainly, with real colors and real names. That became My Color Taste. It's free, there's no sign-up, and your pictures never leave your device.
Color Taste: the palette you keep coming back to
This is where it all started. You add up to 12 images whose colors you love, and Color Taste looks at what they share. You can also paste the link of a public Pinterest board and choose from its newest pins.
The results come in three parts:
- Image analysis: the colors of each picture, with plain names like rust, verdigris, oat and soot.
- Color insights: the mood of your colors, where they sit on the painter's red, yellow and blue wheel, and how they split into grounds (the quiet near-neutrals), mains and accents.
- Inspiration: how to use your colors, what to look for, and five palettes made from your own colors, with their codes.
You can save it all as a PDF, or share it as an image or a short video for Instagram, TikTok or Pinterest.
Image to Palette
Sometimes you only want the colors of one picture. Image to Palette makes a palette of 4 to 10 colors from a single photo or painting. There are six ways to look at it, a gray view that shows how light or dark each color is (very useful for painters), mixing strips with tints, tones and shades, and the color codes in every format.
When you're happy with it, you can save the palette straight into Procreate or Adobe, or as an image.
Four daily color games
There are four small games, each with a new round at midnight, the same for everyone, a bit like Wordle for color.
- Color Memory: you see five colors from a painting for three seconds each, then mix them again from memory with sliders. The painting is revealed at the end.
- Find the Color: you're shown a color with its name and you tap where it is in the painting. Three paintings a day.
- Paint Mixer: mix three colors a day from ten real artist's paints, like lemon yellow, ultramarine and burnt sienna. The paints mix the way real paint does, so blue and yellow really do make green.
- Hex Match: five color codes a day. For each one, pick the right color out of five look-alikes.
The paintings in the games are public domain works from museum collections, one a day. You can also send a round to a friend and see who remembered better.
Free palettes, guides and answers
There's also a growing Resources section with free palette packs from famous paintings, picked by hand: Mary Cassatt's soft pinks and creams, Monet's misty Giverny, and Hiroshige's views of Edo. Each pack works in Procreate, Adobe or any app, and comes with a one-page printable sheet.
And there are short guides, like how to make a palette from a photo, how to bring a palette into Procreate, and how tints, tones and shades work, plus a page of quick answers to common color questions.
Your pictures stay with you
This mattered a lot to me. Everything runs in your browser. Your images are never uploaded anywhere, and you don't need an account.
Give it a try
If you've ever wondered why certain pictures stop you in your tracks, add a few of your favorites and see what they have in common. And if you only have a minute, play today's color game. I'd love to hear what your color taste turns out to be.