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Free Design & Color Picker Chrome Extensions

Pick colours, identify fonts, pull design tokens, inspect CSS specificity and generate backgrounds from any web page.

5 extensions · all free · official Chrome Web Store links

All design & color extensions

  • Background Generator is a powerful and easy-to-use Chrome extension that helps you create beautiful backgrounds instantly. Whether you are a developer, designer, or casual user, this tool allows you to generate visually appealing backgrounds directly from your browser. With this extension, you can create multiple types of backgrounds including gradients, solid colors, and random images. It eliminates the need to switch between different tools or websites, making your workflow faster and more efficient.

    FreeNew4.8 out of 5, editor score
  • CSS Specificity

    Design & Color

    CSS Specificity Calculator is a simple and efficient tool designed to help developers understand how CSS selectors are prioritized by the browser. This extension allows users to input any CSS selector and instantly calculate its specificity value by breaking it down into inline styles, IDs, classes, attributes, and element selectors. It helps developers debug styling issues, avoid conflicts, and write more predictable and maintainable CSS. The tool works in a clean and minimal interface, focusing only on calculating and displaying specificity results without modifying any web pages or accessing unnecessary data.

    FreeNew4.8 out of 5, editor score
  • Design Token Extractor helps developers and designers instantly extract design tokens from any webpage. With a single click, the extension analyzes the current page and identifies key styling elements such as colors, typography, spacing, and layout properties. It reads computed styles from visible elements and organizes them into a structured format, making it easier to understand design systems, maintain consistency, and reuse styles across projects. This tool is especially useful for frontend developers, UI/UX designers, and anyone working with design systems or component libraries. All processing is performed locally in the browser and only runs when the user actively triggers the extension.

    FreeNew4.8 out of 5, editor score
  • Professional color picker with EyeDropper, palette generator, and WCAG contrast checker. Capture, edit, and export colors instantly with a fast, precise, and privacy-focused browser tool.

    Free4.8 out of 5, editor score
  • WhatFont Identifier

    Design & Color

    Instantly identify any font used on a website by simply hovering over the text. View font name, size, weight, and style details — ideal for designers and developers.

    Free4.5 out of 5, editor score

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Questions about these extensions

What are the best free design & color Chrome extensions?

AltFTool publishes 5 free design & color extensions, including Background Generator Pro, CSS Specificity, Design Token Extractor Pro. Each has its own page with features, permissions guidance and a Chrome Web Store link.

Are these design extensions free?

Yes. Every extension in this category is free to install and does not need an AltFTool account.

Do they work in Edge and Brave?

They are built for Chrome. Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Brave and Opera can usually install Chrome Web Store extensions as well.

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