If you’re an artist who uses the Procreate app on your iPad, you’ll want to check out these 18 color palettes for Procreate! They’re perfect for helping you make color choices when creating beautiful artworks.
Plus, they’re all free to download!
So get inspired and create something amazing today! 🙂
If you’ve been looking for color palettes, then look no further! I have put together a list of color palettes that are perfect for Procreate. They come in handy whether you’re creating an illustration, a digital painting, or a new piece of wall art.
All color palettes on this page work only with the Procreate app!
18 Free Procreate Palettes
Birds of Paradise Color Palette
This procreate palette is filled with bright colors to help you create bright Procreate artwork. These vibrant colors are great for digitally painting flowers or brightly colored birds.
Fall Leaves Autumn Color Palette
Shades of orange, browns, and the colors of autumn – if you are looking for a warm collection of colors to paint fall leaves with then this color palette is for you.
Galaxy Blues Color Palette
This is one of my free Procreate color palettes that I love the most. It can be used for a variety of art and it works wonderfully for digitally painting space scenes with Procreate brushes.
If you want to add more brushes to Procreate check out this article.
Happy Rainbow Color Palette
These are happy colors from the color wheel! If you’re looking for a color palette that is filled with color then this color palette is perfect for you.
Misty Mountain Color Palette
This color palette is one of my most popular color palettes on Etsy. I use it all the time for fantasy artwork and landscapes.
If you want to create a beautiful, whimsical mountain effect then this color palette is perfect for you.
Mulled Wine Color Palette
This Christmas Procreate palette is perfect for festive artwork and design! The warm colors are classic and will help you create a wonderful Christmas theme.
Nudes Color Palette
This color palette is perfect for creating beautiful nude color gradients using Procreate. These colors are great for blending and soft colorwork.
Ocean View Color Palette
This color palette is filled with color and seaside-inspired color gradients for Procreate. It works great with watercolor brushes 🙂
Pastel Delight Pastel Color Palette for Procreate
This Procreate Palette is all about pastels! Pastel colors are great for adding a soft color touch to your work. You can also use these colors to create a watercolor effect.
Pony Sparkle Color Palette
With bright pinks, mauves, and blues, this Procreate palette is great for floral artwork and anything to do with springtime!
Purple Sunset Color Palette
This color palette will help you color the sky at sunset with beautiful purples, oranges, and pinks.
Raw Honey Color Palette
A color palette filled with yellow, orange, and brown color gradients. Great for creating a color gradient background on your device or for colorizing photos.
Retro Color Palette
Think hues from the 70’s! Brown, oranges, teal and more. This color palette is perfect for colorizing photos and all things retro!
St. Patricks Day Palette
A color palette filled with green, blue, and yellow color gradients. Great for creating some lucky art 🙂
One of my cool Procreate palettes for when the temperature drops! Great for colorizing photos or adding color gradients to your work.
Check out my specialized color palettes for Procreate HERE…
What makes great color palettes for Procreate?
There are several factors that go into a successful color palette. First and foremost, we must remember that color is hugely subjective, and that means that there may be some color combinations that I love but you absolutely hate!
We associate colors with a whole range of experiences we have had in our lives. Color has the power to move us, anger us, excite us, calm and soothe us! So color can be a very personal thing.
In terms of the formal characteristics of color, the best color palettes tend to be color schemes made up of color gradients, color harmonies, and color contrasts.
Color Gradient: A color gradient is a transition between two or more colors. When you use color gradients in your color palette, you introduce subtle changes in a color tone which makes the palette feel dynamic and not static. In good all-around palettes, there will be color gradients for the light color and the dark color, as well as color gradients for each of the main color swatches in your palette.
Color Harmony: A color harmony is a set of colors that work together to create an aesthetically pleasing color scheme. The best color harmonies tend to be asymmetrical, which means that they do not rely on color schemes such as monochromatic, or complementary color schemes and they avoid split-complementary color schemes.
Split-complementary color schemes rely on one color to create contrast with adjacent colors almost the same. This is useful in some cases, but it makes for a less dynamic color scheme.
Color contrasts are color schemes where color is used for color contrast rather than color harmony. Color contrast can be useful in some color scheming, but the best color palettes are asymmetrical, meaning they do not rely on color contrasts to create dynamic color palettes.
The best color palettes incorporate color gradients and color harmonies.
Other Color Schemes:
Complementary color
Complementary color schemes are color palettes that use colors from opposite ends of the color wheel.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes use three colors that are equally spaced around the color wheel.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes use colors close to each other on the color wheel.
Tetradic color schemes
Tetradic combinations use color schemes with four color swatches rather than three. Tetradic color schemes tend to be very vibrant color schemes.
Grab these FREE Procreate Coloring Pages to use with your Color Palettes 🙂
The basics of using Procreate color palettes
Color palettes are an integral part of creating artwork on Procreate. If you are starting out with exploring the world of color on Procreate, then it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the basics of using and manipulating color palettes.
How do I get more palettes in Procreate?
You can get color palettes by opening the color swatches menu and tapping the Palettes icon on the bottom right of the window.
Once you have selected this, Procreate will open up all your stored color palettes.
To set up your own Procreate color palette manually
If you want to set up your own personalized color palette on Procreate, tap the color icon, select the palettes option and tap the + button on the top right of the colors window.
Once you have tapped this +, a new empty palette will open up, allowing you to select and input colors.
Pro Tip: This new color palette will be called “Untitled”. Rename the palette by tapping the word “untitled”. This will help you identify which palettes you have saved and help you in your design or artwork process!
How do I get the Procreate palette from my photos?
You can use the colors directly from a photo or image in Procreate. This is a great way to find color combinations that are associated with the specific subject matter.
For instance, if you are looking to digitally paint a forest scene, you can use a photo of a forest to get an accurate color palette in Procreate.
To get a specific color palette off a photo or image in Procreate you tap the color icon, select the palettes option and tap the + button on the top right of the colors window.
Then select “New from photos”. This will take you to your photo gallery and you can choose the image you want to get a color palette from!
How do you edit palettes in Procreate?
You can also go ahead and edit palettes in Procreate so that they are personalized. This is especially helpful if you have created a color palette from an image and there is a wide variety of colors.
To edit a Procreate color palette tap the color icon and select the palettes option. Scroll to the palette you want to edit.
You can delete color swatches by tapping a color, holding it down for a bit, and then releasing it. An option will come up asking you whether you want to delete it.
You can also add new colors to your color palette by holding your finger down on the color you want on your artwork, then touching an empty block within your color palette.
What happens when your Procreate color wheel is stuck in greyscale? Read this very helpful article by Diana from Adventures with Art on how you can figure out what to do to fix this!
How do color swatches work in Procreate?
Create your own unique color palette with Procreate color swatches, which are essentially color libraries for your work and color combinations that can help you create distinctive color palette designs.
You can use color swatches to add additional color gradients and color harmony to your artwork.
To add color swatches for color harmony in Procreate, you tap the color icon and select Harmony.
You can then choose from a wide variety of color combinations to add to your artwork by tapping on the title of the color combination in the top left corner of the color window!
Click on the link to access the swatches files. You can drag it into your Procreate palette menu or use the JPEG images to create a new palette.
Using your iPad, copy and save the color palette you want for your image gallery.
Open Procreate.
Tap the color icon, select the palettes option and tap the + button on the top right of the colors window.
Then select “New from photos”. This will take you to your photo gallery, and you can choose the image you want to get the color palette from!
Procreate will then lay out your swatches neatly for you to easily use!
The Best color palette for Procreate
There are color palettes that work in Procreate for almost every mood and color scheme.
I’ve compiled 19 free color palettes below that I personally use and love, but color swatch color schemes change from person to person, depending on your preferences!
Essentially color palettes are color combinations that work well together, so think of these color swatches as being your color group who you can turn to for inspiration or ideas with color.
Conclusion
I hope you’ve enjoyed this article on color palettes for Procreate. Whether it’s your first time using the app or you’re looking to expand your knowledge, these tips should help improve your workflow and create amazing artwork.
Have any questions about how to use colors in Procreate? Leave them below!
Love these color palettes! They’re perfect for procreate!