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romannurik/MaterialColorsApp
A handy little Mac app that gives you quick access to the standard material design color palette.
A Mac menubar app that gives you a color picker for the Material Design palette, built on Electron. Aimed at designers and developers who work with Material Design and want palette colors on their clipboard without opening a browser tab.
Menubar integration is the right UX call — instant access without switching apps. The color data is separated into a common module, so swapping or extending the palette is straightforward. Roman Nurik is a Google Material Design alumnus, so the palette accuracy and HEX/RGB output formats are trustworthy.
Last commit was January 2023 and there's been no activity since — Electron has moved several major versions and the app may not run cleanly on current macOS. It covers Material Design 2 only; Material You (M3) dynamic color is absent. The codebase is pre-hooks React with AngularJS-era module patterns — maintaining or extending it means understanding a stack that's been dead for years. Mac-only by design, which is fine if that's your world, but there's no equivalent for Windows/Linux.