CanDoYa Accessible Palette Generator vs ColorDesigner

CanDoYa Accessible Palette Generator is a free web and browser-extension tool that turns a brand color and page background into interface color roles. It generates text, muted text, surface, primary, on-primary, accent, and border colors, then checks intended foreground/background pairs against WCAG contrast thresholds. Users choose AA or AAA targets and receive exact ratios with pass or fail results. The generator keeps the chosen hue and saturation where possible, searching lighter or darker variants to meet the selected ratio. Accent colors may use analogous, complementary, or triadic hues and receive the same contrast check. A live interface preview shows the palette in context. Individual HEX values or a complete CSS custom-property block can be copied. Palette generation, contrast measurement, and CSS export run locally in the browser, and entered colors are not uploaded. The free plan allows unlimited palettes without an account or usage limit. Most tools continue working offline after the page loads. The report evaluates opaque sRGB contrast only and does not establish whole-product accessibility.

ColorDesigner is a web and extension platform for creating color wheels, palettes, and gradients. Its listed 13 tools include a palette builder, gradient generator, color mixer, color wheel, converter, image palette extraction, image color picking, contrast checker, and color comparison. The palette builder creates tints, shades, tones, and complementary, analogous, split-complementary, triadic, and tetradic harmonies. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 12 tools, HEX export, up to five saved colors, five palettes, and one project. Pro is $37.20 a year, billed annually, excluding tax; it adds unlimited saved colors, palettes, and projects, plus export in HEX, RGB, HSL, LAB, LCH, OKLAB, and OKLCH. Subscription plans include a 14-day free trial; the one-time payment option has no trial. The Figma plugin creates tints, shades, harmonies, and stepped gradients from selected layers or local styles, but supports solid fills only. The Photoshop extension includes a color wheel, OKLCH support, harmonies, and stepped gradients with hue interpolation across color spaces.