Art & Design · head-to-head
ColourLovers vs Icons8
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.
Icons8 lets any page embed one of its icons by simply writing an image URL — no signup, key, or client library needed — with free use requiring attribution and paid plans removing that requirement. A live GET against the real host, img.icons8.com, returned a genuine icon image while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming auth None.
| ColourLovers | Icons8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | freemium |
| Formats | JSON, XML | PNG |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Icons8 supports CORS, while ColourLovers doesn't — pick Icons8 for direct browser calls.