Art & Design · head-to-head
ColourLovers vs Icon Horse
ColourLovers runs a free, keyless REST API behind its color-palette community site, covering colors, palettes, patterns, and user profiles. A live request against /api/palettes returned real palette data over both HTTP and HTTPS, in JSON or XML, with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in the response. Results carry the site's Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so reuse needs credit and stays non-commercial.
Icon Horse fetches the favicon for any given domain — trying the site's own icon first and falling back through a chain of alternate sources so a usable image is returned almost every time — with no signup. A live GET against the real host returned a genuine PNG carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes.
| ColourLovers | Icon Horse | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, XML | PNG |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Icon Horse supports CORS, while ColourLovers doesn't — pick Icon Horse for direct browser calls.