Color Swatch PNG Generator

The color swatch PNG generator renders each color as a labelled card — swatch, hex value and index — and exports the whole sheet as one PNG image.

What is Color Swatch PNG Generator?

• The color swatch PNG generator renders the palette to a canvas and exports it as a single PNG, so one download contains the whole sheet.
• Instead of a bare strip of blocks, every colour is drawn as a card: a large block of the colour with its uppercase hex value printed underneath, and a small caption numbering the swatch below that.
• The hex values are legible inside the image itself.

The dimensions are fixed and easy to predict. Each card occupies two hundred and twenty pixels of width, the sheet is two hundred and sixty pixels tall, and the colour block fills the upper two hundred and four pixels with the text set in the remaining space. Width scales with the count, so four colours produce an eight-hundred-and-eighty pixel sheet and six produce one thousand three hundred and twenty. Because the header text is drawn into the pixels rather than layered over them in the page, the labels survive wherever the file goes.

That self-contained quality is the reason to choose this over the plain strip export. A palette image without values is decoration; with values printed on it, the same image becomes documentation that can stand alone. Someone opening it in a chat client, a ticket, a slide or a printed page can read the codes directly instead of asking for them, which removes a whole round of back-and-forth from design hand-offs. Sending a palette as text is fragile, because formatting gets stripped and values get reordered; sending it as one image with everything burned in is not.

The preview on screen is the exported canvas, so there is no separate rendering path that could disagree with the file. As you edit the palette the sheet is redrawn, which means a value can be corrected and the image re-downloaded in the same moment. There is no configuration at all: no card size, no columns, no background colour, no label format. The layout is one row, the labels are always the hex and an index, and the only decision available is which colours are in the list.

Comparing it with the near neighbours is the clearest way to place it. The unlabelled strip export gives plain blocks with no text, which suits decoration better than documentation. The printable sheet renders the same labelled cards in the page for the browser's print dialog, which is the right choice when the destination is paper or a PDF. And the SVG export gives editable vector markup rather than a raster image. This one sits in the middle: labelled like the printable sheet, but delivered as a portable image file.

A few limitations follow from the fixed layout.

• Because every card is the same size and the sheet is a single row, a long palette produces a very wide image with no wrapping to a second row.
• The background behind the text is always white, which is worth knowing for a very pale palette — the hex text sits on white rather than on the colour block.
• The caption is positional rather than a name, so roles and token names are not recorded.

Used as a color swatch png generator for hand-offs, it does exactly one thing well: it turns a working palette into a swatch sheet png with the codes already on it. When you need a palette swatch image with hex codes that will look identical on any machine, or you want to export color cards as png in one file, this is the tool that keeps the values visible instead of leaving them behind in the page they came from.

How to use Color Swatch PNG Generator

1. Edit the palette rows on the left, adding or removing colours as needed.
2. Check the generated swatch card sheet in the panel beside them.
3. Press Download .png to save color-swatches.png.
4. Re-edit the palette and download again when a value changes.

When to use Color Swatch PNG Generator vs related tools

Use this export when a palette needs to travel as a single labelled image — hand-offs, tickets, slides or documentation. Use the unlabelled strip for decoration, the printable sheet for paper, and the SVG export for editable markup. When the palette has to stay editable rather than fixed in a picture, the color palette SVG exporter writes markup instead, and when it has to travel as data, the color palette JSON exporter is the plainer carrier.

Privacy & Security

This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data ever leaves your device. There is no server round-trip, no upload, no logging, and no account required. Your input is processed locally using client-side JavaScript and is never stored, transmitted, or accessible to anyone else. When you close the tab, everything disappears.

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