CapyTone · tool no. 11
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A hand-tuned lexicon turns any mood phrase into a five-colour palette — deterministic, no AI, nothing leaves the tab.
CapyTone turns a mood or phrase into a five-colour palette with readable text contrast built in, and also checks contrast, builds colour harmonies and blends gradients.
Updated · by Unfolding Dimensions
The guide
How to make a colour palette from a mood
- Step 1
Type a feeling or pick a mood — or start from a colour, like "start from warm orange".
- Step 2
Get a five-colour palette laid out as a poster, with readable text contrast built in.
- Step 3
Download the poster, or copy the palette as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens.
CapyTone is a colour palette generator that starts from words. A hand-tuned set of mood anchors turns your phrase into a palette, and the same phrase always gives the same palette, so you can share it.
Every palette is built to pass WCAG AA contrast for its text before anything is drawn.
Five more modes sit beside it: Generate builds palettes from colour-harmony rules (complementary, analogous, triadic and more); Check compares two colours with both WCAG 2 and APCA contrast; Blend makes gradients in Oklab or OKLCH; Extract reads the colours from a public website; and Image reads a palette from a photo you drop in and lets you click any pixel for its hex, all inside your tab.
Questions
Does it use AI?
No. It uses a hand-tuned lexicon of moods and colours. Phrases it doesn't recognise still get a palette within the same guardrails, and the tool says it improvised.
Is the contrast accessible?
The palette's text-on-background pair always clears WCAG AA (4.5:1). Check mode shows any pair against both WCAG 2 and APCA.
Can I get a website's colour palette?
Yes, with Extract mode. Paste a public URL and it reads the page's HTML and stylesheets. Colours set by JavaScript can't be seen this way, and the tool says so.
Is anything stored?
No. Palettes are made in your browser, and Image mode never uploads your photo. Extract mode is the one exception: the site's server fetches the public page you name, returns the colours, and keeps nothing.