Don’t let the winter blues get you down. Step into warmer weather with these 10 FREE color palettes inspired by sunny climes.
Whether you’re planning travel for Spring Break or simply wanting a visual escape from cold winter weather, these 10 color palettes are a colorful route to vacation escapism. You can use these palettes to create designs that have a transportive feel, taking your viewers to warmer environments in an instant.
All of these schemes edge towards the warmer and brighter hues of the color spectrum, to mimic the atmosphere of summer light and warm locations. Try tropical brights for energizing brand identities or desert taupes for calming packaging designs. Or, why not pin these palettes to a mood board to pull together color ideas for events, travel, or home decor?
Read on to discover 10 free color palettes inspired by warm landscapes, from pastel-hued Caribbean cities to far-flung verdant jungles.
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Each color palette below details the HEX code swatches that allow you to use your color palette for online designs. For print designs, you can easily convert these to CMYK swatches.
When you land on a color palette you love, simply right-click and save the image to your computer, or save to a mood board to come back to later.
1. Bird of Paradise
Escape to the equatorial tropics with this palette of juicy brights. Inspired by the vibrant colors of birds of paradise, magenta, jaffa orange, neon green, and coral blue will ensure your designs stand out in a jungle of minimal neutrals.
2. Camel Caravan
Sun-scorched colors make up this dune-swept palette, with rusty red, burnt orange, amber, and sand yellow paying tribute to desert environments.
Use this sand-blasted scheme to bring intense heat and sun to any design, making for dramatic website designs, posters, or logos.
3. Floating Market
The famous floating markets of Thailand provide color inspiration for this vitamin-infused palette. The abundance of tropical produce on display in vendors’ boats contribute their vivid colors to this uplifting scheme, combining hot pink and turquoise with lime yellow and yellow green.
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4. Sunset Jetty
This color palette is a graduation of warm tones inspired by beach sunsets, including flamingo pink, coral, and coral red.
The most beautiful coastal sunsets are offset by the cooler colors of the sky and sea, so try mixing a little deep periwinkle into your scheme to offset the warmer hues.
5. Casablanca
The busy souks and winding streets of Morocco’s cities inspire this burnished color palette of putty and gold tones. Contrast the calming lethargy of clay-inspired colors with vivid azure blue and the glint of antique gold.
You can use a metallic swatch for foiling (try Pantone 20-0033 TPM Glamor Gold) or use the HEX code on the palette for a digital-friendly gold hue.
6. Calle Obispo
If you’re dreaming of warm-weather travel that involves more than simply lying on a beach, why not consider Havana for your bucket list? Obispo Street (Calle Obispo) in Old Havana lends its eclectic palette of pastel hues to this color palette.
Stroll past sugar-hued houses and vintage cars with this scheme of pastel sea green, pale aqua blue, cantaloupe, and pastel red.
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7. The Pink City
Petra, with its enigmatic rosy glow hidden between desert cliffs, inspire this romantic and ethereal color palette. Perfect for bringing intrigue and elegance to your designs, this palette builds from a dark, moody base to pale, dusty tones.
Combine deep mauve purple and dusty rose with sun-bleached hues of desert sand and chamois.
8. Beach Boys
Surf’s up! Dive into this optimistic oceanic palette that gives a nod to the crashing waves of Hawaii’s coast. 1950s-inspired bold pastels give this beach color scheme a retro feel, making it a great match for vintage branding or poster designs.
Cyan blue, golden yellow, tiffany blue, and bittersweet orange combine to create a fresh palette for beachcombers at heart. Grab your surfboard and wade in!
9. Teal Lagoon
This aquatic color palette brings together a graduating trio of molten teal green shades, as well as an energizing dose of bright red orange to provide contrast and dynamism.
An on-trend palette with adaptability for brand design, apps, or websites, bring the mesmeric mystery of tropical lagoons into your projects with this tropical scheme.
10. Goa
The beaches of western India are renowned for their pure white sand, colorful beach huts, and incredible seafood. Take a sun-soaked vacation with this Goa-inspired color palette of acid neon hues.
This palette is vibrant enough to use on social media posts and web banners, teaming mint and lime green with neon turquoise blue and lilac pink.
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