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CLUSTER COLOR-PALETTES-SCREEN · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-08-20

Desktop color palette tools

A cluster of desktop utilities centered on picking screen colors, extracting dominant palettes from images, and generating, mixing, and managing custom color palettes for design work, with a few adjacent tools for icon preview, GTK theming, and editing color values in racing simulation game files. Dated entries before the index start show a single entry in 2016-08, one in 2023-02, one in 2025-06, then three in early 2026 (2026-01, two in 2026-04, and 2026-05), suggesting episodic activity with no steady pattern. The traction leader is lfc-vehicle-colour-editor with 2 stars, while Rewaita and color-picker-desktop each have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2016: 1JUN 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1APR 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 1
AUG 2016SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Rewaita0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that recolors and customizes GTK application interfaces using custom color palettes, wallpaper tints, and visual effects.
  2. 02lfc-vehicle-colour-editor2★1 mo—hobbyDesktop tool for editing RGB colour values in racing simulation game binary files, with live preview, clamping, and undo/redo per color slot.
  3. 03KColorChooser0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceColor selector tool that samples any screen pixel and creates custom color palettes from preset schemes.
  4. 04Pixelette1★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedhobbyDesktop app that extracts dominant color palettes from images and picks screen colors, outputting HEX and RGB codes for designers and developers.
  5. 05Color My Desktop0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop app that generates custom color palettes and applies matching themes across Linux desktop environments and apps.
  6. 06Color Picker0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop tool that picks colors from any screen pixel and saves and mixes color palettes.
  7. 07ColorSmith - Modern Color Picker0★unknownliveColor management tool for picking screen colors, creating gradients, managing palettes, and converting between color formats for design work.
  8. 08kcolorchooser0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop utility for picking colors from the screen and building and mixing custom color palettes for design work.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.