Christmas color palettes
Six festive schemes, five colors each, ordered dark to light. Click a hex to copy it.
The default Christmas palette (pillar-box red beside bright green) is the one everybody reaches for and the one that looks cheapest on a screen, because those two hues are close to equally light and sit almost opposite each other, so their edges vibrate. Every traditional scheme below fixes that the same way: it darkens the green well past the red, which restores the hierarchy and, not coincidentally, makes the red usable as an accent.
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Traditional, deepened
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Scandinavian
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Midnight and silver
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Spiced
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Winter forest
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Candlelight
There are three routes out of the obvious version, and all three are represented here. Deepen it: forest green, oxblood and warm gold, which is the most reliable for anything commercial. Cool it: the Scandinavian route of white, pale gray and a single red, which is the safest for an interface because it is mostly neutral. Or drop the red entirely for midnight blue, silver and white, which reads as festive without reading as Christmas, and is what to use when the campaign has to run into January.
Other palettes.
Same format, different mood. Every hex on every one of them copies in a click.
- Fall color palettes Rust, ochre and oxblood, each row anchored by one genuinely dark brown.
- Winter color palettes Two families that behave nothing alike: quiet blue-grays, and forward jewel tones.
- Spring color palettes Fresh greens and blossom pinks, kept from going saccharine by one dark leaf green.
- Summer color palettes Sea blues, sun yellows and coral, with a deep blue doing the structural work.
- Pastel color palettes Soft schemes that each break the pastel rule once, because five pastels have no hierarchy.
- Neutral color palettes Warm and cool neutrals. Not gray: every color carries the same faint hue bias.
All thirteen palette collections · Pull a palette out of an image · Check a pair for contrast
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