Shademix

Your colour, exactly right. Every time.

You've been there. The wall photo doesn't match the paint chip. The client's "blue" looks teal on screen and navy in print. The brand HEX from Figma is a degree off the actual fabric. The accessibility audit fails on a colour you swore was "dark enough." Three apps, two browser tabs, a search engine — and you still can't tell whether that wall is RAL 5012 or NCS S 2065-B.

Shademix ends that.

One free toolkit. Seven tools. Ten paint systems. Eleven export formats. Pick a colour from anything — a photo, a screenshot, the live camera, the whole screen — and instantly see it across every system designers and decorators actually speak: HEX, RGB, OKLCH, RAL Classic, RAL Design, NCS, Pantone-equivalent (PE-prefix, approximate), Munsell, HKS, Federal Standard 595, plus four decorator paint equivalents. With ΔE quality scores, so you know how close the match really is — not just that one exists.

Build harmonies grounded in real colour theory (seven OKLCH-perceptual schemes, no muddy gradients, no arbitrary anchors). Run WCAG 2.2 contrast checks and a Brettel-Vienot-Mollon colour-blindness simulator without leaving the canvas. Catch CMYK gamut problems before they cost you a reprint. Export to Adobe ASE, Procreate .swatches, GIMP GPL, Sketch, Figma JSON, Tailwind, CSS variables — plus printable SVG and PDF cheatsheets your team can pin to the wall.

Made for people who care about colour:

• Interior designers + decorators — photograph a client's wall, walk out with the matching paint code.
• Brand managers — sample any reference image, drop the exact HEX into Figma in one click.
• Print studios — Print Ready catches resolution, bleed, and orientation problems before proof costs hit your invoice.
• Photographers — extract a mood palette from a shoot, share as one link.
• Illustrators + concept artists — Procreate-native exports, perceptually-balanced OKLCH harmonies.
• Architects — RAL Classic + NCS together, finally.
• Textile makers (knitters, weavers, ceramicists) — cross-reference dye and thread codes against the photo on your phone.
• Accessibility auditors — WCAG contrast and colour-blindness simulation in the same tab as the design.

Free. Forever. For everyone.

No signup. No subscription. No ads. No telemetry. No Pro tier. No "you've saved 3 palettes, please upgrade" gate. Every feature unlocked from day one, on every platform: web (shademix.com), iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro via the App Store. Works offline once cached as a PWA.

Honest about its limits: Pantone matches are approximate (PE-prefix, with the licensing explained in plain English). Source-clear about the colour science: OKLCH-native, ΔE-aware, no proprietary black boxes.

One pick. Every system. The right colour, every time.

→ shademix.com — try it before you read another word.