Spectrum v1.0.0
Welcome to the first official release of Spectrum! 🎨
Spectrum is a modern, intuitive color palette editor built with Avalonia UI. Create, generate, and export beautiful color palettes for your design projects.
✨ Features
🎨 Color Panel
- Real-time color editing with Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Temperature sliders
- Live preview of your selected color
- HEX input for precise color values
- Smart color naming that automatically identifies your colors
🎯 Palette Management
- Add colors to your palette with one click
- Lock colors to keep them safe during palette generation
- Reorder colors with up/down arrows
- Rename colors with inline editing
- Copy/Delete colors individually
- Clear palette with a single button
🧠 Smart Generation
- Harmony rules (Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, etc.)
- Space to shuffle — instantly regenerate your palette based on harmony rules
- Locked colors are preserved during generation
👁️ Accessibility Tools
- Color blindness simulation:
- Protanopia (red-blind)
- Deuteranopia (green-blind)
- Tritanopia (blue-blind)
- Achromatopsia (total color blindness)
- Live preview of how your palette looks to color-blind users
🎨 Theme Support
- Light/Dark theme toggle with ☀️ button
- Consistent theming across all panels
⏪ Undo/Redo
- Full history tracking for all palette operations
- Undo/Redo buttons for worry-free experimentation
🖼️ Extract from Image (Coming Soon)
- Extract colors from images and import them into your palette (WIP)
🚀 Installation
Download
- Download the attached
Spectrum.exefile - Run the executable — no installation required!
System Requirements
- Windows 10 or later
- .NET 8.0 Runtime (included in the self-contained build)
📸 Screenshots
🛠️ Development
Built with:
- Avalonia UI 11.2+ — Cross-platform UI framework
- Material Design Icons — Beautiful icons
- Community Toolkit MVVM — Clean MVVM architecture
🤝 Contributing
Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue or submit a pull request.
📝 License
This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.
🙏 Acknowledgments
- Avalonia UI team for the amazing framework
- The open-source community for inspiration and tools
Enjoy creating beautiful palettes! 🌈