Pallete

What it does

Paste anything that has colours in it — a chunk of CSS, a table out of a design doc, a list of hex codes from a chat — and get ready palettes without retyping a single value.

Nothing leaves the machine: no network calls, no telemetry. A project is a plain *.palette.json file wherever you put it, so it lives in git, gets shared and backed up like any other source file. Changes hit the disk on their own — there is no Save button.

• Three columns: projects → palettes → colours.
• Import from arbitrary text — hex, rgb() / rgba(), ASCII and Markdown tables, CSS/SCSS variables, grouped into palettes by section comments or by a shared name prefix. What exactly is recognised: import formats.
• A palette generator that grows a whole palette out of a single base colour in OKLCH: shades, a tonal scale, an A → B gradient, an alpha scale, harmonies and a semantic role set.
• Undo/redo by command — an import is one step in history and rolls back whole.
• Click a colour to copy it as hex, rgb or hsl; drop a .txt, .md, .css or .scss file into the window to import it.
• Dark, light and system themes.

Install

No published releases yet, so the app is built from source. You need Node with pnpm and a Rust toolchain — the standard Tauri 2 prerequisites.

git clone https://github.com/n0sfer666/pallete.git
cd pallete
pnpm install
pnpm tauri build

pnpm tauri dev runs the app without producing an artifact.

First launch of an unsigned build

The build is unsigned, so the system asks before running it the first time:

• macOS — the first launch is refused. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, press Open Anyway, and launch it again. Do not strip the quarantine attribute by hand — that disarms the check for everything else you download.
• Windows — on the SmartScreen warning: More info → Run anyway.
• Linux — run the .AppImage directly, chmod +x it if needed.

Where the data lives

Projects stay where you created them. The workspace — remembered projects, the theme, the copy format — lives in the app directory under the dev.n0sfer.pallete identifier, so reinstalling does not wipe it.