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ColourLovers vs Lordicon
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.
Lordicon is a library of 46,400+ static and animated (Lottie/JSON-based) icons, embeddable via its player script or fetched directly from its CDN with no key required for free use; paid plans unlock the full catalog and commercial licensing. A live GET against the real asset host, cdn.lordicon.com, returned a genuine 404 for a made-up asset ID while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes — the marketing homepage itself sends a stricter, non-wildcard CORS header, but that isn't the asset-serving endpoint.
| ColourLovers | Lordicon | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | freemium |
| Formats | JSON, XML | JSON, SVG |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Lordicon supports CORS, while ColourLovers doesn't — pick Lordicon for direct browser calls.