Hellwal is a fast and extensible color palette generator. It’s designed to create terminal and desktop color schemes from wallpaper images or predefined theme files, making it useful for users who want to automate theming across their setup.
The project also supports template generation, JSON output, and a range of palette adjustment options for fine-tuning the final result.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Generates color palettes from wallpaper images or from user-defined theme files.
- Saves generated template output to the cache directory for reuse in shell and terminal configurations.
- Supports template variables for colors, wallpaper path, RGB values, and alpha transparency.
- Can write palette data to standard output in JSON format for use with tools such as jq.
- Offers dark, light, and color modes, with support for combining modes.
- Includes optional Neon mode for more vibrant and bold color output.
- Provides palette adjustment controls such as dark offset, bright offset, invert, grayscale, and contrast checking.
- Can run a script or shell command after successful palette generation.
Website: github.com/danihek/hellwal
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Developer: danihek
License: MIT License
Hellwal is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Color Scheme Generators | |
|---|---|
| pastel | Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors |
| wallust | Create 16 color palettes |
| lule | Rust alternative to pywal |
| Pywal | Color schemes on the fly |
| wpgtk | Colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager |
| walrs | Generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image |
| cwal | Generates dynamic color schemes from images |
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