matugen is a colour generation tool for building Material You and Base16 based themes from images or individual colours.
It is particularly useful when the same palette needs to be reused across several applications. Generated colours can be fed into configurable templates rather than requiring each target application’s configuration to be maintained independently. The templating system is flexible enough for both straightforward colour substitution and more involved configuration generation.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Generates Material You and Base16 palettes from images or individual colours.
- Offers multiple Material colour scheme types together with light and dark output.
- Can select different prominent colours extracted from an image as the source for palette generation.
- Provides controls for contrast, lightness, opacity and other palette characteristics.
- Exports generated palette information as JSON for consumption by other programs and scripts.
- Includes a template engine supporting expressions, conditions, loops, includes and arithmetic operations.
- Provides colour filters for operations including hue, saturation, lightness and opacity adjustment.
- Supports custom colours and external JSON data inside templates.
- Allows individual templates to use different colour schemes where a single desktop setup needs more than one palette treatment.
- Can generate configuration files for applications, desktop components and web-based themes.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, NetBSD, macOS and Windows.
Website: github.com/InioX/matugen
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Developer: InioX
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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