ColorBrew vs ColorMagic

ColorBrew is a color studio for design, code, and collaboration, available on the web and as a browser extension. Its AI palette tool creates palettes from text descriptions, with controls for mood and palette size. Users can upload images to extract colors, preview them in design layouts, and export palettes in formats including PDF, JPG, CSS, Tailwind, JSON, and design tokens. Other tools cover gradients, color harmonies, contrast checking, image extraction, and saved palettes. The contrast checker calculates ratios and reports whether combinations pass WCAG AA and AAA standards. Users can manage and share saved palettes. The Chrome extension adds new-tab palettes, hex copying, design quotes, and a color-matching game; its store listing says it has no ads or tracking and handles website content. ColorBrew describes its audience as designers, developers, and artists. A Figma extension is listed as coming soon. The free plan costs nothing, and the site says everything it currently offers is free.

ColorMagic is a free web tool that generates color palettes with AI, and it also offers an API. Palette inputs can be names, images, text, or hex codes; users can upload an image to extract colors. Results can be copied as colors, CSS, or gradient effects, or downloaded as PNG. Saving favorite palettes requires login. The site also includes a random color generator, color mixer, contrast checker, color name finder, coloring book, and color shades. Its mixer combines two colors at an adjustable ratio and reports the result in hex and RGB. The free API offers a GET endpoint to search palettes by query, including tags and text, but the API may be changed or removed without warning. The site says palette generation is unlimited and may show ads. The coloring book supports online coloring and downloading or printing artwork; pages are free for personal use, classrooms, and therapy sessions without an account. For the coloring book photo feature, processing happens in the browser unless a user chooses to upload through Illustrate with AI. The privacy policy says the service uses Google Analytics cookies and may collect profile and submitted information, device details, access history, referrers, IP addresses, server logs, and identifiers.