Coolors
coolors.co
Hit the space bar until a five-colour palette appears that works
Free tier
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canva.com
Template-first design for people who do not want to learn a design tool.
Pick a size, pick a template, replace the words and pictures — that is the whole model, and it is why someone with no design training can produce a passable poster, deck or social post in ten minutes. Background removal, simple video editing and a large asset library come along with it. Anything genuinely custom means fighting the template grid.
Questions
A genuinely usable free tier with paid plans for volume or team features. A large share of the templates, photos and fonts are marked Pro, and free brand controls are minimal.
Yes. Canva sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
A large share of the templates, photos and fonts are marked Pro, and free brand controls are minimal.
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