Alternatives to iWantHue

A web tool that generates palettes of clearly distinct colors for data visualization. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • iWantHue

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

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as iWantHue.

  • 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 qualitative, sequential and diverging schemes with colorblind and print filters 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 with light and dark previews, but is limited to eight colors per palette.

  • 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 palettes with colorblind checks, focused on scales for charts and maps.

  • 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 space with a 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 open source and includes 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

  • Sim Daltonism

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

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSiOS

  • Huetone

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

    FreeOpen sourceWeb