Alternatives to Realtime Colors

A web tool that previews a color palette and font pairing on a realistic page layout as you edit it. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

The original

  • Realtime Colors

    A web tool that previews a color palette and font pairing on a realistic page layout as you edit it.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Realtime Colors.

  • Adobe Color

    A free web tool from Adobe for building color palettes from harmony rules, images and accessibility checks.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Adobe Color is a palette builder with harmony rules; Realtime Colors is a previewer.

  • Paletton

    A long-running web color scheme designer built around a color wheel and classic harmony rules.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Paletton derives schemes from a color wheel and previews them on simpler samples.

  • Color Hunt

    A curated web gallery of color palettes, updated daily, with a companion Chrome extension.

    Color Hunt is a palette gallery, useful as input for Realtime Colors.