Rank every color from favorite to least. Drag each shade into a tier and settle which colors are truly S-tier.
Everything is loaded — drag each into a tier. Missing one? Hit ＋ Add items. Every color already comes with a picture — use 🏷 Image + label to switch to pictures only.
A color tier list sorts colors into ranked rows — S at the top, D at the bottom — so your favorite and least favorite shades end up in plain view. Fourteen swatches are ready to go here, from blue and red through teal, magenta, black and white, and any shade that's missing can be typed in with “Add items” before you save the board as a PNG.
Can a color be wrong? Not really — and yet everybody has one they cannot stand. This color tier list maker loads the shades people argue over anyway, blue, red, green, purple, teal and pink among them, bold primaries through muted neutrals and everything sitting between. The swatches are all on screen already, so ranking them takes seconds. Put each one where you think it belongs.
Custom shades can be added, the tiers recolored to match, and the whole color ranking exported as a clean PNG. Worth reading first: what tier list colors mean and the exact tier list color codes, plus our guide on how to make a tier list and a breakdown of what S-tier really means.
Those 14 are broad families, and the real arguments start when you split them. Navy, sky blue and turquoise rarely land in the same row; crimson and burgundy can finish a full tier apart. Type the exact shades you care about and they join the board as name tiles — handy, because a color tier list with names is far easier to read than a wall of near-identical squares. Prefer a real swatch? Upload a small image of the shade instead. The extremes deserve places too: pastel mint green, neon lime, hot pink, gold and silver, plus quiet ones like beige and olive that nobody admits to liking.
S-tier colors are the ones you keep returning to without ever deciding to — the shades you would put on a wall, wear twice a week, and build an entire design around. Strip a palette down to three and the survivors are your S tier colors. A-tier covers the strong, versatile shades, B and C hold the ones that work in exactly one context, and D is for whatever you would never willingly reach for. Personal taste is reason enough here; versatility and how a shade sits next to its neighbors are the arguments available to anyone who wants one.
Context changes the answer, so name yours before you drag a single swatch. The shade you'd paint a bedroom isn't always one you'd wear, and a color that works in a winter outfit can look flat on a phone case. Pick one lens — clothes, rooms, pure mood — and rank worst to best inside it. Tone matters as much as hue, too: plenty of people who drop orange to D would happily put burnt orange in A, so add the version you actually like rather than punishing a whole family for its loudest member.
Want some structure? Start from the color wheel. The painter's primary colors — red, yellow and blue — and the secondary colors you get by mixing them, orange, green and purple, are all in the tray already, so a primaries-versus-secondaries board takes no setup. Cyan and magenta are there as well; with yellow, they're the three inks a printer mixes from. For a tougher board, type in complementary pairs as single items — red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple — or split everything into warm colors and cool colors and rank each side on its own.
Right under the board sits a live community ranking of colors. Once your swatches are placed, hit Submit my ranking and your board is counted with everyone else's — each color then shows up on its most-voted row, with a percentage for how many voters agreed. It's a quick way to see where your favorite color tier list parts ways with the room: brown in your S tier and the crowd's D tier is a conversation worth having. Blue has a head start in most favorite-color surveys, but the tally here only counts what visitors actually submit.
Browse every ready-made board, or start from a blank one.
Every option is pre-loaded in the tray below — drag each one into a tier from S (best) to D, then click Export PNG to save and share your ranking.
Yes. Hit “Add items” and type anything we missed, one per line. Add, rename, recolor and reorder tiers however you like.
Completely. No login, no sign-up, and no watermark on your exported image.
Colors are about as personal as ranking gets. Blue tops favorite-color polls just about everywhere in the world, but that should not decide your board — the shades you are genuinely drawn to belong at the top, not the ones everyone else picks.
Yes. The board starts with the main colors, and you can hit “Add items” to type in specific shades — teal, maroon, lavender or any custom color — one per line, then rank them alongside the rest.
Blue. Favorite-color surveys run in different countries keep landing on it, usually well ahead of whatever comes second. A crowd answer isn't a ruling on your board, though. The poll under the tool shows how visitors here rank the colors, with a percentage beside each one, so you can check whether blue wins on this site too — or just put it where you honestly want it.
It depends which kind of color you mean. With light, black is what you see when no visible light reaches your eye, so it has no place on the spectrum — white is the opposite case, every wavelength at once. With paint and ink, black is as real as any other color: it comes in a tube, and printers use a separate black ink because mixing cyan, magenta and yellow only gets you a muddy near-black. For this board the debate is settled anyway: black is in the tray, so it gets ranked like the rest.
Fourteen come loaded, and you can keep going from there. “Add items” takes extra shade names one per line, and you can upload swatch images too, several at a time. The tiers stretch as well — add rows below D, rename them, recolor them. Past a few dozen colors, though, splitting into themed boards — pastels on one, neons or metallics on another — usually makes each ranking easier to argue about.
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