The review
What it does
Describe a mood or upload a reference image and Swatchbook proposes palettes with roles already assigned: background, surface, text, accent and states. Every combination is checked against accessibility contrast guidelines, and failing pairs are flagged with the nearest passing alternative.
Why we like it
Accessibility usually arrives late in a design process, when changing colours is expensive. Swatchbook makes it the starting point without making palettes dull. Exports to design tokens and CSS variables are clean, and the dark-mode generator is better than most hand-tuned attempts we've seen.
Watch out for
- Mood-to-palette results can feel safe; push the 'adventurous' setting if you want surprises.
- Contrast checking covers text and backgrounds, not more subtle issues like colour-blind confusion between two accents. Check those separately.
- No team libraries yet.
