What Is BrandPalettes and What Can You Find on It?

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BrandPalettes is a searchable database of brand color palettes and logo color codes. It covers 2,000+ companies, apps, and organizations across 2,846 canonical palettes, and for each brand you can copy HEX, RGB, CMYK, and Pantone values or download a ready-made palette image and logo. It is built for designers, marketers, and developers who need the exact colors a brand uses rather than an approximation pulled from a screenshot.

What you can find on the site

The core content is organized around individual brand palettes. Each entry lists the colors that make up a brand's identity, with the color values in several formats so you can drop them straight into your own tools.

  • Brand palettes by name — search a company, app, or organization and get its full set of colors.
  • Color values — HEX, RGB, CMYK, and Pantone for each swatch.
  • Downloads — a ready-made palette image and the logo.
  • Industry browsing — find comparable brands when you don't know the exact name.
  • A–Z browsing — work through the full brand list alphabetically.

The homepage surfaces a set of "iconic brand palettes" as a starting point. A few examples show how much the color count varies between brands:

Brand Colors listed Example values
Google 4 #4285F4, #DB4437, #F4B400, #0F9D58
Instagram 10 #405DE6, #5851DB, #833AB4, #C13584, #E1306C, #FD1D1D, #F56040, #F77737, #FCAF45, #FFDC80
Facebook 2 —
YouTube 2 —
Microsoft 5 #F25022, #7FBA00, #00A4EF, #FFB900, #737373
Amazon 2 —
Firefox 6 #E66000, #FF9500, #FFCB00, #00539F, #0095DD, #331E54
Slack 6 #36C5F0, #ECB22E, #E01E5A, #2EB67D, #4A154B, #000000
eBay 4 #E53238, #0064D2, #F5AF02, #86B817
NBC 6 #FCB711, #F37021, #CC004C, #6460AA, #0089D0, #0DB14B
LEGO 4 #E3000B, #FFED00, #000000, #FFFFFF
Red Bull 2 #FF0C49, #FFC800
Mastercard 3 #EB001B, #FF5F00, #F79E1B
IKEA 2 #0058AB, #FBD914
Coca-Cola 1 #E61D2B

Two things stand out from this list. First, "brand color" is rarely a single value — Instagram lists ten, Microsoft five, Coca-Cola just one. Second, the palette is a set, not a hierarchy, so the site doesn't tell you which color dominates a logo; you decide that from the logo itself.

Browsing by industry

If you don't have a brand name in mind, the industry index lets you find comparable brands by category. The categories listed on the site are:

  • Technology & software — software, hardware, cloud, and digital products
  • Media, gaming & entertainment — film, television, games, publishing, and media
  • Sports & esports — teams, leagues, competitions, and esports
  • Fashion & apparel — apparel, footwear, jewelry, and luxury brands
  • Retail & e-commerce — stores, supermarkets, marketplaces, and e-commerce
  • Food, beverage & restaurants — food, beverages, restaurants, and hospitality dining
  • Automotive & mobility — vehicle marques, mobility, and automotive services
  • Travel, transport & hospitality — airlines, hotels, rail, shipping, and travel
  • Finance & insurance — banks, payments, insurance, and financial services
  • Healthcare & life sciences — healthcare, pharmaceuticals, medical, and biotech
  • Industrial, manufacturing & construction — manufacturing, engineering, materials, and construction
  • Energy & utilities — energy, petroleum, electricity, and utilities
  • Telecommunications — mobile, broadband, telephone, and connectivity
  • Consumer goods & personal care — beauty, personal care, pet care, and packaged products
  • Business (category continues beyond the excerpt shown)

This is the useful path when you're building a palette for a new brand and want to see what colors are conventional in your sector — for example, checking finance brands before settling on a blue.

How to use it in practice

A typical task: you're matching a client's marketing material to a partner brand's colors and need values your print vendor can use.

  1. Search the brand by name, or browse its industry if the name is ambiguous.
  2. Open the brand's palette page to see every color in the set.
  3. Copy the format you need — HEX or RGB for screen work, CMYK or Pantone for print.
  4. Download the palette image or logo if you need a reference file rather than values.

The expected result is a set of exact color codes you can paste into a design tool, stylesheet, or print spec, instead of sampling colors from a low-resolution logo.

What to keep in mind

  • Palettes are reference sets, not official brand guidelines. The site presents itself as a color reference; it doesn't state that values are supplied or endorsed by the brands themselves. For anything contractual or trademark-sensitive, confirm against the brand's own published guidelines.
  • Color count varies, so don't assume a fixed number. Some brands list one color, others ten. Check the specific page rather than expecting a standard palette size.
  • Formats serve different jobs. HEX and RGB are for screens; CMYK and Pantone are for print. Copying a HEX value into a print workflow will not give you an accurate result.
  • No pricing or account information is stated on the pages reviewed here, so treat access and download terms as something to verify on the site itself rather than assuming they're unrestricted.