Coolors vs BrowserUtils
Coolors is a color palette generator where you press the spacebar to get new color schemes, with a library of community palettes and tools like an image picker, contrast checker, palette visualizer and gradient maker. A paid Pro plan removes ads and limits.
Quick comparison
| Fact | Coolors | BrowserUtils |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-up | Optional | Not needed |
| Ads | Heavy | No third-party ads (one small note per page about our own products) |
| Platform | Web, iOS app, Figma plugin, Adobe extension and Chrome extension | Web, works on mobile |
| Open source | No | No |
| Price | Free; Pro from $3/mo (billed yearly) | Free |
| Tools | About 15 tools | 299 |
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Where Coolors is better
- Its spacebar generator is built for open-ended exploration of random schemes; BrowserUtils' palette generator builds rule-based harmonies from one base color.
- A large library of community palettes to browse (10M+ on Pro, per Coolors), and a Palette Visualizer that previews a palette on sample layouts.
- Accounts let you save palettes and organize them into projects and collections.
- Works inside design tools: Figma plugin, Adobe extension, iOS app and Chrome extension.
Where BrowserUtils is better
- No ads and no paid tier. Coolors' free plan shows sponsor units on the generator, caps palettes at 5 colors and saved palettes at 10, and removing ads requires Pro.
- Accessibility tools beyond contrast: a WCAG contrast checker, a color-blindness simulator and a generator for palettes that pass WCAG AA.
- Color tools sit next to the CSS tools you use them with, such as gradient, mesh gradient and box-shadow generators and a CSS-to-Tailwind converter.
- Paste a color value into the search box on any page and it opens in the converter, contrast checker or palette generator.
Tools on both
Color Palette Generator
Generate harmonious color palettes from any base color
Color Palette from Image
Extract dominant colors from an uploaded image
Color Picker from Image
Pick colors from uploaded images
Color Contrast Checker
Check WCAG contrast ratios between two colors
Color Converter
Convert between HEX, RGB, and HSL color formats
CSS Gradient Generator
Create beautiful CSS gradients visually
Tailwind Color Picker
Browse and pick Tailwind CSS colors
HTML Color Names
All named HTML/CSS colors with hex values and preview
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