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Introducing Palette A new app for elementary colors
Tue, Apr 10, 2018 | 1 min read
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.
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!
About the Author Cassidy is passionate about building communities and useful, usable, delightful products and experiences using open technologies. In the past he co-founded elementary, Inc. and served as the chief experience architect, and he’s worked as a community architect, partner success engineer, UX architect, web developer, and writer—and worn many, many other hats. He is a director at the GNOME Foundation, contributing to the GNOME and Flathub ecosystems.
Outside of work and open source he enjoys playing single-player video games, building LEGO, 3D printing, automating his smart home, watching and reading almost everything Star Wars, spending time with his best friend (his wife, Katie), and being the dad of his two young kids.
Blog Ethics & Disclaimer No unnecessary third-party tracking Public, privacy-respecting Plausible analytics routed via my own domain No social media embeds—quoted posts are included locally No payment or hardware accepted unless explicitly noted These are my personal thoughts , and don’t represent any official stance of Endless, GNOME, Flathub, elementary, or any other organization or open source project.
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