Colorway Generator
A textile colorway generator for fabric that recolors any pattern in seconds. Pick a curated palette or enter your own hex codes; perceptual colour matching maps every dominant color in your design to the target palette while preserving shading.
What is a colorway and why does every collection need them?
A colorway is the same pattern design reissued in a different color combination. A single floral print might ship as a pink colorway, a navy colorway, and an earthy tan colorway: same motif, three distinct products. Fashion buyers, home-textile buyers, and wallpaper buyers all expect a collection to show multiple colorways before they place orders.
Traditionally, colorways are done by hand in Photoshop: select each color region, adjust hue/saturation, tweak by eye, repeat for every target palette. Thirty minutes per colorway × six colorways × ten prints in a collection = a week of manual recolouring. This tool does the same job in seconds by grouping the source colors and mapping each group to the closest-looking target color, so shading and detail survive the recolour.
Pair with our Color Extractor to pull a palette from a reference photo, then use those hex codes as your target palette here. After recolouring, run the result through the Seamless Checker to confirm your tile still repeats cleanly, because recolor never changes pixel layout, but it's worth the 10-second sanity check before production.
Working to Pantone references from a buyer? Look each one up in Pantone Connect and paste its hex code here as a target colour, then approve the dyed colour against the physical swatch, not the screen. Our guide explains which Pantone library to use for fabric.
What designers use the colorway generator for
Build a fashion print collection with 6 colorways
Buyers want to see a print in multiple color combinations before they commit. Upload your finished print, cycle through warm / cool / earthy / pastel presets or define season-specific custom palettes, and download a full colorway sheet in ten minutes instead of a week of Photoshop.
Recolor wallpaper designs to match interior palettes
Upload the wallpaper, pull the room's accent palette from a photo with our Color Extractor, paste those hex codes here, and generate a wallpaper that matches the interior's tone exactly.
Generate brand colorways for a client presentation
Client has a brand guide with three primary colors? Type their hex codes into the target slots, run it against your pattern template, and present colorway variations matched to their brand within the same call.
Preview a pattern in monochrome or sepia tones
The Monochrome and Earthy presets give quick black-and-white or vintage-sepia treatments. Useful for print-ready proofs, mood boards, and low-color-count production runs where spot colors drive cost.
Test a pattern against a target palette before lab-dipping
Enter the hex values of your target colours into the target slots and preview how the pattern reads on-screen before you commit to lab-dip physical swatches. Catches obvious failures before you spend the physical fabric.
Seasonal refresh of a bestseller design
Got a summer print that sold well and want a winter version? Same design in deeper, muted tones often outperforms a fresh seasonal design because the pattern is already proven. Run it through the Earthy or Cool preset, ship the variant.
When to use each palette preset
Autumn / spice / sunset
Terracotta, mustard, rust, cream. Strong for autumn fashion, bohemian home textiles, and hospitality brands wanting a welcoming feel.
Coastal / clinical / premium
Deep navy, slate, powder-blue. Works for sportswear, menswear, medical, and any brand aiming for 'calm, capable, professional'.
Natural / artisan / sustainable
Walnut, sand, terracotta, sage. The go-to for sustainable fashion brands, ceramics, and any product leaning on 'natural and honest'.
Club / streetwear / Gen-Z
Hot pink, cyan, lime, violet. Instant Y2K / rave / techno energy; use on activewear, nightlife merch, youth-market swimwear.
Nursery / feminine / spring
Soft pink, mint, butter-yellow, lavender. Baby and kids, wedding, spring collections, DTC candle/beauty brands.
Editorial / print-economic
Black, four greys, white. Use for magazine-style editorial prints, ceramic glazes, and any production run where color count drives cost.
Four steps, no signup
Upload your pattern or design
Drop any JPG, PNG, or WEBP up to 10 MB: a textile swatch, a scanned motif, a digital pattern, or any image with clearly defined colors you want to swap.
Pick a colorway preset or define your own
Choose from curated palettes (warm, cool, earthy, neon, pastel, monochrome) or enter up to 6 custom target hex codes. Preview swatches update instantly.
Preview the recoloured result
The tool maps every dominant color in your source to the target color that looks closest to the human eye, the way textile labs judge a colour match. Compare before/after side-by-side.
Download the colorway PNG
Export a lossless PNG, up to 1800px on the longest side. Run the same source through multiple palettes to build a full colorway range for a collection, with no watermarks, no usage restrictions.
Real color science, not a filter
Built on perceptual colour matching (the way textile labs judge a match), not a hue-shift Instagram filter.
Perceptual colour mapping
Every dominant color in your pattern is matched to the target that looks closest to the human eye, the way textile labs judge a colour match.
Region-aware, not hue-shifted
The tool swaps specific colors rather than globally shifting hue. Red leaves become blue; green stems become gold, without touching the gray shadows.
Private + fast
Your image never uploads; close the tab, it's gone. No signup, no watermarks, no usage restrictions.
Lossless PNG output
Exports as PNG with no compression loss, up to 1800px on the longest side, sized for proofs, mockups, and building a colorway range. Commercial use allowed. Upscale the result when you need production resolution.
Frequently asked
Q.What is a colorway in textile design?
Q.How does the color mapping work?
Q.Will my pattern's details and shading survive the swap?
Q.How many target colors can I pick?
Q.Is my upload private?
Q.Can I use the colorways commercially?
Q.What's the difference between this and a Photoshop Hue/Saturation adjustment?
Q.Will this work on photographs, not just flat patterns?
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