Colorfor.ai vs PaletteMaker

Colorfor.ai is a color workspace for making palettes, building interface themes, checking contrast, previewing designs, and exporting color tokens. Its AI Studio turns a written brief into Safe, Expressive, and Distinctive directions; a deterministic engine computes and verifies the colors. The theme builder creates 40 semantic UI roles from up to three brand colors, with light and dark modes. Contrast & Vision checks WCAG 2.2 ratios and includes seven color-vision simulations. Export formats include CSS variables, Tailwind, shadcn, SCSS, design tokens, SVG, PNG, and JSON. The service also offers a keyless REST API, an MCP server for AI agents, and embeddable SVG palette badges. Palettes and settings stay in browser local storage, while image uploads are processed on-device. AI Studio sends brief text to its provider through OpenRouter only after explicit opt-in; palettes and images are not sent. Site Recolour sends a submitted public page address for rendering, and its screenshots are cached for about 24 hours. The free plan covers tools, API, MCP server, widgets, and exports, subject to fair-use limits. The public API allows 120 requests per minute per IP.

PaletteMaker is a web app for creating AI-generated color palettes and previewing them in design examples. Users can filter palettes by color tone and number of colors, with each palette containing two to five colors. Colors can be randomized, changed individually or removed. Preview contexts include web and mobile UI, branding and logos, illustration, typography, posters and patterns. Exports are available for Procreate, Adobe ASE, image and code formats. The app is offered free, with all current features free forever and no stated usage limits; there is no separate free trial. PaletteMaker began in 2022 as a pet project by Tanya K, a senior visual designer from Europe based in Riga, Latvia. It is intended for designers and non-designers, including creative professionals and color lovers. The site offers English, German, French, Portuguese and Japanese options, and provides LinkedIn and email contact links. The Free plan is free.