ColorKit vs ColorMagic

ColorKit is a free web toolkit for designers and artists working with color palettes, gradients, and other design elements. Its palette generator offers AI prompts, style modes, color locking, and controls for hue, brightness, saturation, and temperature. Palettes can be exported as PNG, copied as CSV or an array, or shared by URL. The image palette tool extracts 2 to 10 colors, allows manual adjustment of color points, and can create a PNG collage; ColorKit says images used by this tool are never uploaded to its server. The gradient maker supports linear, radial, and conic gradients, adjustable color stops, AI generation, CSS copying, and image or code export, with up to eight stops per gradient. A contrast checker calculates text and background contrast ratios and can pick colors from an uploaded image or image URL. Other listed tools include a color picker, shade generator, SVG color changer, background maker, and color mixer. ColorKit is available on the web. Image palette extraction needs no signup; a free account is required to save palettes and gradients.

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.