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Yet another colour palette generator, but it's a cool one

Yet another colour palette generator, but it's a cool one

by speedgoose·Mar 4, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemDark Horse

Lightweight microGPT palette gen that runs offline on watches—solves an actual constraint.

Strengths
  • •Genuinely novel use case: color palette generation optimized for resource-constrained devices (Garmin watches), not cloud APIs.
  • •Seeding with one or two fixed colors adds real creative control that generic tools like Coolors/Adobe Color lack.
  • •MicroGPT architecture shows technical taste—choosing lightweight inference over cloud LLMs for this problem is clever.
Weaknesses
  • •Web tool itself doesn't demonstrate the watch use case; no proof-of-life on actual Garmin hardware shown.
  • •Palette quality subjective; no comparison to Coolors, Khroma, or Adobe Color beyond 'it works pretty well' (author's words).
Category
Design
Target Audience

Designers, developers, Garmin watch owners needing offline palette generation

Similar To

Coolors · Adobe Color · Khroma

Post Description

I wanted to generate many colour palette on my Garmin watch, so I made an IA for that.

I used the microgpt architecture released a few days ago. I think it works pretty well.

You can also set one or two starting colours, which is perhaps the mode where the tool is the most interesting.

Click on the about button to read more about it.

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