Palette Scout
Palette Scout is a fun, intuitive way to explore color, with 180 colors to arrange into palettes, and 8 challenge cards to help you break out of your comfort zone. For painters, designers, quilters, makers, decorators, and anyone else who's ever second-guessed their color choices.
How Palette Scout works
Pick your anchor color
Start with a color you love, or one already in your project.
Explore palette options
Use the Palette Ideas cards to find combinations grounded in color theory.
Bring your palettes to life
Take your cards shopping, match your stash, or use Color Match Guides for exact supply matches.
“a must-have!”
I consider myself to be pretty good at picking colors. But I was struggling with a cross stitch I was designing — my navy blue, true red, and yellow color combo was just BLAH. I hated it. I bought Palette Scout, and WOW am I impressed. It’s easy to use, and I quickly figured out a slight shift in my color palette that made a HUGE difference. My cross stitch is adorable, in big part to Palette Scout. Highly, highly recommend!
— CB
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“I'm obsessed”
I've been using my cards for everything. Clothes, quilts, interior design. I love them so much. Such a well thought out system and the cards are so well designed it makes it so quick and easy to understand.
— Tara
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“This is AMAZING - I'm obsessed”
Honestly, this is one of my favorite things right now. I have been using it for garden planning/paint color schemes and plan to use it for knitting and other crafts! It is SO well made and thought through and a delight. I highly recommend getting this! I already love color and color theory, but this thing makes me love it even more - so much still to learn and play with!
— Lindsay
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A Fun Way to Learn About Color
Palette Scout uses a unique method of repeating shapes around a color wheel to make learning about color easy and fun for everyone.
Plenty of Ways to Play
Whether you’re using the deck to intuitively put together color combinations, following the instruction booklet to learn color theory concepts, or responding to a Challenge Card, there’s no wrong way to play with Palette Scout - just endless opportunities for creativity and learning.
Feel Confident in Your Color Choices
Palette Scout lets you experiment with different color palettes so you can plan your next project with confidence! Each color in the deck comes with suggestions about others to pair with it that are grounded in color theory. Create your ideal color palette and then match it to the art supplies of your choice.
Understand the why behind your palettes
Color Theory 101 walks you through the fundamentals. Color Theory 201 goes deeper into proportion, value, and why colors look different next to each other.
Take your colors straight to your supplies
Color Match Guides help you translate your palettes directly to your materials — markers, paint, fabric, yarn, and more.
Ready to get started with Palette Scout?
Questions
What can I use Palette Scout for? +
Just about any creative project or decision that involves color! Our customers use it for quilting, knitting, painting, graphic design, interior decorating, cake decorating, floral design, ceramics, and dozens of other disciplines. If color decisions are part of your process, Palette Scout fits right in.
Can I give a bundle as a gift? +
Yes! Purchase the bundle of your choice and give your recipient the physical deck. For the digital components (courses, guides, and swatch files), just email us at hello@zolliemakes.com with your gift recipient's email address after the purchase (so we don't spoil the surprise!). We'll add everything to their account, ready and waiting when they sign up.
Is Palette Scout available for wholesale? +
Yes! Find us on Faire, or reach out to wholesale@zolliemakes.com for more information.
It helps me with all my creative projects; no more stopping by the paint store to grab color swatches, which are a limited palette . Plus, it’s so much fun to have on hand, I keep my deck on my coffee table and people keep pulling it out to play with it.
An excellent tool to help choosing companion fabrics for my quilts. It takes the stress out for the work is already done.
The Palette Scout deck is a very cool tool for anyone who knows what they like, but feels stumped when picking colors out that "go" just right. The visual is very helpful to help bring a project together. Easy to use an understand. I have used it already for quilting fabric combinations, and yarn color combinations. 5/5 !
I love that I could look for the right colors from my current stash, which is sorted by color. Just a great tool for me.
I’m a new quilter and I have anxiety over picking the right colors to put together. I practiced Zollies technique and matched the cards to a busy pattern that I had a few colors I had difficulty choosing my anchor color from. This box really helped me play with color options first and relatively quickly before having to pull out all of my fabric. Also the different tones helped me see if I wanted to make the palette feel more playful or serious. I will definitely be using this a lot.
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