Introducing Palette

A new app for elementary colors

Cassidy James Blaede
2 min readApr 10, 2018

This past weekend, I realized I was opening a web browser to do something a native app could do better: referencing and copy-pasting colors. I was inspired to build that native app, and after a weekend of hacking, I’m proud to introduce Palette.

We use a set of bright and friendly colors in elementary OS. With Palette, you can easily access the entire set on your local device, plus copy any variation of each color to paste into your own projects.

It’s a great little tool for anyone making icons, mockups, or really anything else elementary related.

Get It

Palette is available on AppCenter for the suggested price of $4. As with all AppCenter apps, you can also choose to pay what you want to download it, including $0.

Get it on AppCenter

And as with every AppCenter app, the source code of Palette is openly licensed and available for free on GitHub.

Get the source on GitHub

I'd love to know what you all think!

Thanks

Thank you to Daniel Foré for yet again providing his apps as a handy reference, Blake Kostner for his work on AppCenter Dashboard and the extremely useful Houston CI, Micah Ilbery for the amazing icons, and everyone else involved with elementary OS for the incredible platform with and on which to build.

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Cassidy James Blaede

Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy. Partner Success at Endless OS. GNOME Foundation member. Ex-elementary, System76. He/him.