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Palette
One color in, a whole design system out.
Put one color into Palette. Get back an entire UI-ready color system with accents, neutrals, utilities. Every color gets its own perfectly calibrated 13-tone ramp, WCAG and APCA are built in by construction. Pro users unlock full customization, exporting, and saving history. Built on new patent-pending tech. I didn't take public tools and rewrap them. I built an entirely new color engine that solves these problems differently - based in the best perceptual color science.
I was inspired to build this because of AI slop design. That led me down the path of why computers didn't 'see' color the way that humans did - and the lack of a common language between perceptual, display, and print color spaces (there was no Unicode for color).
That led me to inventing and patenting ART, a new color language, and Orchestra, the engine that runs it.
Palette is the first product built on this tech, and it solves problems I faced as a designer for the last 30 years:
- Colors that shift when you make them lighter or darker - The RGB color wheel tells you colors should look good together but don't - Printed colors never match their digital counterparts - Accessibility required tedious math and was never just baked in - Generated color ramps cut off near black and never provided the shades I needed
I'm excited to finally share Palette with the world - and I'm hard at work on a web-based version, an Adobe plugin, and our next big release: Converter. The color conversion tool you've always wanted and never had.
About Palette on Product Hunt
“One color in, a whole design system out.”
Palette was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #91 on the daily leaderboard. Put one color into Palette. Get back an entire UI-ready color system with accents, neutrals, utilities. Every color gets its own perfectly calibrated 13-tone ramp, WCAG and APCA are built in by construction. Pro users unlock full customization, exporting, and saving history. Built on new patent-pending tech. I didn't take public tools and rewrap them. I built an entirely new color engine that solves these problems differently - based in the best perceptual color science.
On the analytics side, Palette competes within Design Tools, Developer Tools and Design — topics that collectively have 788.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Palette performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Palette?
Palette was hunted by Jeff Mahacek. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Palette including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Jeff Mahacek
I was inspired to build this because of AI slop design. That led me down the path of why computers didn't 'see' color the way that humans did - and the lack of a common language between perceptual, display, and print color spaces (there was no Unicode for color).
That led me to inventing and patenting ART, a new color language, and Orchestra, the engine that runs it.
Palette is the first product built on this tech, and it solves problems I faced as a designer for the last 30 years:
- Colors that shift when you make them lighter or darker
- The RGB color wheel tells you colors should look good together but don't
- Printed colors never match their digital counterparts
- Accessibility required tedious math and was never just baked in
- Generated color ramps cut off near black and never provided the shades I needed
I'm excited to finally share Palette with the world - and I'm hard at work on a web-based version, an Adobe plugin, and our next big release: Converter. The color conversion tool you've always wanted and never had.