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About iWantHue
iWantHue generates and refines palettes of colors that are easy to tell apart, which helps with charts and maps that have many categories. You set limits on hue, chroma and lightness or start from presets. You can then choose k-means or force vector generation and optionally improve the result for colorblind viewers.
Palettes can be sorted and exported as hex, RGB, HCL or LAB in JSON, as CSS lists, or as JavaScript. The site also has tools to correct or complete an existing palette, and the generator is published on npm.
Strengths
- Produces perceptually distinct colors
- Colorblind-friendly option
- Exports to JSON, CSS and JavaScript in several color spaces
- Can correct or complete an existing palette
Limitations
- Aimed at categorical data colors, not brand or UI palettes
- Colorblind optimisation is slow
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use, with source code on GitHub.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- médialab
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Data scientists choosing colors for charts with many categories
- Categories
- Color tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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