Professional color palettes with hex codes to make your pie charts clear, accessible, and visually appealing.
Color is not merely decorative in a pie chart — it is functional. Each slice needs a distinct hue so readers can match it to the legend and distinguish adjacent segments. Poor color choices lead to confusion: similar shades blend together, low-contrast palettes are invisible to colorblind users, and overly bright neon colors cause eye strain. A well-chosen palette improves comprehension speed, makes your chart accessible to the roughly 8 percent of men with color vision deficiency, and reinforces a professional, trustworthy design. The palettes below have been tested for contrast, accessibility, and visual balance.
Use bold, widely separated hues like indigo, amber, emerald, red, and violet. Ideal for presentations projected on screens where color fidelity may vary. Example: #4F46E5, #F59E0B, #10B981, #EF4444, #8B5CF6.
Use varying lightness levels of a single hue — for instance, five shades of blue from navy to sky. This creates an elegant, cohesive look best suited for reports with a single brand color.
Combine hues that remain distinguishable under protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia. Pair blue with orange, avoid red-green adjacency, and ensure sufficient luminance contrast between neighboring slices.
Muted, desaturated tones like soft coral, lavender, mint, and peach. Great for infographics and social media where a friendly, approachable tone matters more than hard-edged precision.
Start with your primary brand color and generate complementary or analogous hues around it. This keeps every chart on-brand while maintaining enough contrast between slices.
Each palette below lists five colors, because five slices is the most common pie chart made with our generator (the median across 13,058 downloaded charts, January to August 2026). Use the colors in order, starting with slice one. Need more than five? Every one of these palettes is in the editor's palette menu with ten colors.
#FF6384, #36A2EB, #FFCE56, #4BC0C0, #9966FF. The editor's default. Bright and familiar, good for class projects and quick slides.
#FFB3BA, #BAFFC9, #BAE1FF, #FFFFBA, #E8BAFF. Light and friendly for posters, worksheets and social posts. Use dark label text on these.
#2563EB, #0891B2, #059669, #D97706, #DC2626. Strong, even tones for business reports and dashboards.
#0077B6, #00B4D8, #90E0EF, #023E8A, #48CAE4. All blues. Works when the chart should match a blue brand or theme.
#FF6B6B, #FFA07A, #FFD93D, #FF8C42, #C1292E. Warm reds, oranges and yellows for energetic, eye-catching charts.
#2D6A4F, #52B788, #95D5B2, #40916C, #74C69D. Greens from dark to light, a natural fit for environment and budget topics.
#FF006E, #8338EC, #3A86FF, #FFBE0B, #FB5607. High energy on dark backgrounds and in presentations.
#BC6C25, #DDA15E, #606C38, #283618, #FEFAE0. Browns and olives for a calm, printed-report look.
#7B2D8E, #C05299, #E8739B, #F7A4B8, #FFD1DC. Purples and pinks, from deep to pale.
#FF6F91, #FF9671, #FFC75F, #F9F871, #D65DB1. Playful and bright, a good fit for all-about-me charts and younger classes.
#EE204D, #FF7538, #FFCF48, #1CAC78, #1F75FE. Classic crayon colors that every slice can be named by: red, orange, yellow, green, blue.
#E69F00, #56B4E9, #009E73, #F0E442, #0072B2. Based on the Okabe-Ito set, which stays readable for the common types of color blindness.
#1A1A1A, #9E9E9E, #4A4A4A, #D6D6D6, #6B6B6B. Grays that stay distinct on a black-and-white printer. Alternate dark and light slices.
#E76F51, #F4A261, #E9C46A, #2A9D8F, #264653. A balanced warm-to-cool set that looks good almost anywhere.
#2E8B57, #0F52BA, #9B111E, #6C3082, #FFB200. Deep, rich colors: emerald, sapphire, ruby, amethyst and gold.
In our pie chart generator, you can click any slice's color swatch to enter a custom hex code. Copy any palette above directly into the editor. If you are working in Google Sheets, Excel, or a coding library like Chart.js, you can paste the hex array into your chart configuration. Remember to keep the order consistent between your legend and your data array so the colors match the correct categories. For recurring reports, save your palette as a template so every chart in the document shares the same visual language.
Use the interactive editor below to create your own pie chart. Customize colors and labels, then download PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF.