Color Recipes: A Simple Color-Scheme Collection

I’ve published color.recipes, a color-scheme collection you can filter by tag.

Schemes you like can be downloaded or copied in various formats.

The schemes are managed in a public GitHub repository, so any combination that’s missing you can make yourself and add via a PR.

Motivation

There are already several similar color services out there.

But they were all loaded with extra features or showed ads, and none of them felt right to me.

I started building this software aiming for a simple color-scheme collection that suits me and is pleasant to use.

How to use it

• Filter by tag. Pick more than one and you’ll only see schemes that match all of them (e.g. both winter and city).
• Schemes you like can be downloaded or copied in various formats — CSS, SCSS, Tailwind, JSON, SVG, Swift, and more.
• Each scheme has a permalink. Share it and it previews with that scheme’s thumbnail (an OpenGraph image).

Missing a combination? Make it yourself and PR

When a search returns nothing, you can build a scheme and add it right there.

1. Copy the AI prompt the page shows you
2. Paste it into your own generative AI and have it produce scheme JSON
3. Paste the JSON back and preview it in place
4. Log in with GitHub and choose a fork owner (your account or an org)
5. One button does fork → commit → PR

Scheme data is just schemes/*.json in the repo, so a contribution is “a PR that adds one JSON file.”

Feedback welcome

Feedback is handled through GitHub Issues — if you hit a glitch or notice something, please file one.

And please send PRs to add new color schemes. The repository is here:

https://github.com/ngs/color.recipes