Show HN: Code Palettes – Free color theme generator for code and docs

1 jakobhautop 1 8/7/2025, 9:40:17 AM codepalettes.com ↗

I love palette generators like Coolors.co and Adobe Color Wheel. But they zoom in on the palette generation which can make it hard to judge “how would this look on code/docs?”. So I built a small playground to help myself on a different project. The tooling rn is premature to say the least but I am showing this to get some early feedback on the idea itself. Is this something you would use when deciding on colors/fonts for your docs or would you do something else?

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jakobhautop · 1d ago

Happy to answer any questions! The stack is super simple: just vanilla JS/CSS/HTML, hosted with GitHub Pages + custom domain. I use GoatCounter for privacy-friendly analytics.

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Show HN: Code Palettes – Free color theme generator for code and docs

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