Show HN: Paletty – 800 curated terminal themes and a contrast-aware generator

Category: cli-tool

Tags: terminal-themes, color-scheme, contrast-aware

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 5, Utility: 7)

Paletty is a terminal color scheme generator that uses a deterministic pipeline in OKLCH color space with APCA contrast validation and Voronoi-based hue anchoring to create balanced, readable palettes. It uniquely combines perceptual color science, image extraction, and a curated gallery of 800 themes, making it a powerful tool for terminal customization.

Target audience: backend devs, devops

Repository: https://paletty.dev/ · 7 stars

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