Designers and developers juggle fragmented color-palette workflows
Designers and developers need to create, organize, and apply sets of colors, but the available workflows can be fragmented: some tools start from one seed color, while applying or choosing project-specific colors in design and coding tools can be manual. Artists and small product makers also need ways to organize swatches or coordinate options. Pantone lookups and model-paint mockups are adjacent needs, but not necessarily the same buying problem.
For designers and developers managing project color palettes. Mentioned from Jan 2022 to May 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub and Hacker News.
7 different people described this problem in 7 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.1/10
- Frequency
- 7.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Is there a tool that if you input colors, will adjust them to work more harmoniously with each other? I keep finding tools that are you put one color in and it suggests the others, but I want to put them all in and get them all adjusted, that make sense?
Figma's approach to color is so frustrating and bonkers that I don't even bother. I've tried to make it work several times, and it's just so manual and tedious that I give up
danielvaughn on Hacker NewsFeb 2024
Build brief
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- 1 product idea with the smallest useful version and pricing
- 5 places to find your first customers
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- Current workarounds, existing solutions and risks