Alternatives to HCL Wizard

Web tools for designing HCL-based color palettes and checking them for color vision deficiencies. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • HCL Wizard

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as HCL Wizard.

  • 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 with colorblind checks, without the R and Python package integration.

  • ColorBrewer

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

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

    ColorBrewer is open source and offers curated sequential, diverging and qualitative schemes with map previews and ASE, GIMP and CSS export.

  • Data Color Picker

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Data Color Picker builds visually equidistant palettes of up to eight colors with light and dark previews and SVG export.

  • 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.

  • Leonardo

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

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

    Leonardo is open source and includes data visualization scale tools driven by target contrast ratios, aimed mainly at design systems.

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

  • Huetone

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

    FreeOpen sourceWeb

  • Accessible Palette

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • Sim Daltonism

    A color blindness simulator for Mac and iOS that filters a screen region or camera view.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSiOS