Alternatives to Data Color Picker

A web tool that builds visually equidistant color palettes for charts, maps and dashboards. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Data Color Picker

    A web tool that builds visually equidistant color palettes for charts, maps and dashboards.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Data Color Picker.

  • ColorBrewer

    A web tool for choosing sequential, diverging and qualitative color schemes for maps and charts.

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

    ColorBrewer is open source with curated sequential, diverging and qualitative schemes, colorblind and print filters, and exports to ASE, GIMP and CSS.

  • Chroma.js Color Palette Helper

    A web tool for designing perceptually balanced, colorblind-safe palettes for data visualization.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Chroma.js Color Palette Helper builds perceptually balanced chart palettes and checks them for colorblind safety, with a plain interface.

  • iWantHue

    A web tool that generates palettes of clearly distinct colors for data visualization.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    iWantHue generates perceptually distinct categorical colors with a colorblind option and exports JSON, CSS and JavaScript, not limited to eight colors.

  • HCL Wizard

    Web tools for designing HCL-based color palettes and checking them for color vision deficiencies.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    HCL Wizard designs palettes in the HCL color space with a color vision deficiency emulator and matches the R and Python colorspace packages.

  • Leonardo

    Adobe's web tool for generating accessible color themes and scales from target contrast ratios.

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

    Leonardo is Adobe's open-source tool with separate data visualization scale tools, driven by target contrast ratios, with CSS and SVG export.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Viz Palette

    A web tool for testing data visualization color palettes, including color vision deficiency simulation.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Coblis

    A browser-based simulator that shows how an image looks to people with color vision deficiencies.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Accessible Palette

    A web tool for building color systems with consistent lightness and WCAG contrast across hues.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Huetone

    An open-source web tool for building predictable, accessible color palettes in the LCH color space.

    FreeOpen sourceWeb