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Description

Features

• Generate/Export Material You Color Palette:
  • Generate a Material You color palette either from an image or a color
  • Output the generated palette as JSON to stdout, or use keywords inside templates that get exported as files
• Keyword Filters:
  • Use filters to change values of the keywords, like changing lightness for colors and manipulating strings with replace, to_upper, to_lower and set_lightness
• Custom Keywords/Colors:
  • Define your own custom keywords or colors you would like to be harmonized inside the config file, that you can then use in templates
• Palette Customization:
  • Customize the contrast and scheme type for the palette
• Restart Apps/Change Wallpaper:
  • Restart supported apps and set the wallpaper on Windows, MacOS, Linux and NetBSD

About Material Design 3

Material Design 3 offers a new color system that allows for more flexible and dynamic use of color. The new system includes a wider range of colors, as well as a range of tints and shades that can be used to create subtle variations in color.

Other projects

• Mitsugen - For gnome-shell, based on the old version of Matugen
• pywal - More color generation backends, default theme files.
• wpgtk - Like pywal, but with a gui and more features.

Supported platforms

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS
• NetBSD

Installation

Cargo

cargo install matugen

Arch

yay install matugen

NixOS

inputs = {
  matugen = {
    url = "github:/InioX/Matugen";
    # If you need a specific version:
    ref = "refs/tags/matugen-v0.10.0"
  };
  # ...
};

let
  system = "x86_64-linux";
in {
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [    
    # ...
    inputs.matugen.packages.${system}.default
  ];
}

{pkgs, inputs, ...}: {
  imports = [
    inputs.matugen.nixosModules.default
  ];

  # ...
}

NetBSD

pkgin install matugen

cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/matugen
make install

Acknowledgements

• material-colors
• wallpaper.rs - Changing wallpaper for Windows