About Tinta
Tinta is a free color library for designers and developers — curated palettes, CSS gradients, and mesh gradients, plus a studio for building your own. It is an independent project, free to use, and requires no account to browse.
What is Tinta?
Tinta is a free color library and toolkit for designers and developers. It publishes curated color palettes, CSS linear gradients, and CSS mesh gradients, each with copy-paste hex codes, CSS variables, and Tailwind config — plus a Color Studio for generating your own palettes from color harmony rules and previewing them on real interface mockups.
Is Tinta free?
Yes, entirely. Browsing and copying colors requires no account and no payment. An account only unlocks saving palettes, uploading fonts, and submitting your own work to the library.
Can I use Tinta colors in commercial projects?
Yes. Every palette, gradient, and mesh gradient on Tinta is free to use in personal and commercial work — websites, apps, print, and branding — with no attribution required. Color values themselves are not copyrightable.
Where do the palettes come from?
From two sources. Some are curated by the Tinta team; the rest are community submissions from registered users, each reviewed and approved before it appears publicly.
How are colors grouped into hues and tones?
Automatically, from the hex codes themselves. Each color is converted to HSL; its hue angle places it in a band such as blue or orange, and the set as a whole is assessed for lightness and saturation to decide whether it reads as pastel, dark, vibrant, muted, warm, cool, or neutral. Nothing is filed by hand, so the groupings never drift from the data.
Who builds Tinta?
Tinta is built and maintained by Haikal Akif, a designer and developer who also publishes at haikalakif.com. It is an independent project, not a company product.