Minecraft Block Palette Generator
Pick two or three colours, or a start and an end block, and this Minecraft block palette generator returns a gradient of blocks chosen from 130 full blocks. You can also pick one block and get analogous or complementary partners, or choose any colour and see which blocks are the closest. Every result has swatches, names and a copy button.
How to make a Minecraft block palette
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Choose what you need
Block gradient blends between a start and an end. Matching palette finds partners for one block. Blocks by colour lists the closest blocks to any colour you pick.
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Set the start and the end
Pick two colours (add a middle one for a three-stop gradient), or pick two blocks from the list. Drag the slider for how many blocks the gradient should have.
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Limit the blocks if you need to
Switch the block set to survival friendly, wool, concrete, terracotta or no gravity blocks, and tick Use each block once to avoid repeats.
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Copy the list
Press Copy block list, or download the swatch strip as a PNG, and take it into your build or to your friends.
Colour schemes for matching palettes
These are the schemes behind the matching palette tab. They describe where the other blocks sit on the colour wheel compared with your block.
| Analogous | Blocks with hues within about 30 degrees of yours. They blend softly and are the safest choice for walls and roofs. |
|---|---|
| Complementary | Blocks from the opposite side of the wheel, for accents such as doors, trim and lamps. |
| Triadic | Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bolder, so use one as the main colour and the others for details. |
| Same hue | Blocks of a similar hue and different lightness. Good for shading, depth and a one-colour theme. |
| Grey blocks | Stone, deepslate, concrete and similar blocks have little colour. For them the tool picks other greys, or warm and cool accents. |
| Block gradient | Steps are spaced evenly in a perceptual colour space, then each step takes the closest block, so the blend looks smooth to the eye. |
| Distance | Shown on the blocks by colour tab. A smaller number means a closer match; 0 would be the same colour. |
Building a block gradient
A gradient is a row of blocks that fades from one colour to another, and it is one of the quickest ways to make a build look planned: a roof that goes from dark to light, a tower that fades into the sky, a floor that flows from stone to sand. The generator makes it by working out evenly spaced colours between your start and end, then picking the nearest block for each one.
The spacing is done in OKLab, a colour space designed so that equal steps look equal to the eye. Mixing in plain red, green and blue often leaves dull or uneven middles, for example a muddy brown between blue and orange; OKLab keeps the steps even. Add a middle colour when two colours alone give a boring middle, such as red to blue.
Switch on Use each block once when you want every step to be a different block. Leave it off and the same block may be chosen for neighbouring steps, which is useful when a palette is small, like wool only. Wool and concrete give clean ramps because they come in matching dye colours, and terracotta gives an earthy ramp.
Palettes that go together
Choose Matching palette, pick one block, such as oak planks or a stone brick, and a scheme. The tool measures the colour of every other block and keeps the ones whose hue sits where the scheme says. Blocks come back sorted from light to dark, with your own block first, so the list reads as a build order from roof to floor.
A common rule of thumb is to use one main block for most of the surface, a second block for about a third of it, and a small amount of an accent. Analogous partners work well for the main and the second block, and a complementary partner makes a good accent. Treat it as a starting point, not a rule.
Use the block set menu to keep the palette practical. Survival friendly leaves out blocks from the Nether and the End and costly storage blocks, and no gravity blocks leaves out sand and gravel, which fall if unsupported.
Finding blocks by colour
If you start from a colour instead of a block, say a hex code from a reference image, the Blocks by colour tab ranks the closest blocks. The number next to each name is the distance in the perceptual colour space, multiplied by 100, so lower is closer.
Block colours here are flat averages, written from general knowledge, of 130 common full blocks: all wool, concrete and terracotta colours, planks and logs, stone types, soil, snow and ice, and the metal and gem blocks. Real blocks have patterns and shading in the game, so use the result as a shortlist, then compare a few candidates side by side in the game.
For pictures rather than single colours, try the pixel art generator, which uses the same colour table to turn a whole image into blocks, or the map art generator for pictures that fill whole maps.
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