A cross-platform material you and base16 color generation tool
_{(pronounced: mat-uh-gen)}



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Themes

Templates for programs and websites

• InioX/matugen-themes

Description

Features

Tip

If you would like to learn more about the features and configuration, read the wiki here.

• Templating engine built with Chumsky (designed for colors) - Read More

  • Custom engine focused on making color manipulation simple and efficient
  • Import a color once in any format and automatically access all other formats (hex, rgb, rgba, hsl, etc.)
  • Colors are parsed as real color objects, not strings, making filters faster and more reliable
  • Supports piping, nested expressions, conditionals, loops, filters, includes, arithmetic operations, escaping output.
  • Can be used as a standalone templating engine. You can import custom json files or define and override them in the CLI.

• Generate / Export Material You and base16 color palettes

  • Generate a full Material You or base16 palette from either an image or a single color
  • Export the generated palette as JSON or reference palette keywords directly within templates
  • Easily integrate palette values into config files, themes, or style templates

• Keyword Filters - Read More

  • Modify any keyword using filters such as replace, to_upper, to_lower, and set_lightness
  • Includes built-in color filters for adjusting hue, saturation, lightness, opacity, and more
  • Filters can be chained together for powerful inline transformations

• Custom Keywords / Colors

  • Import any JSON file (through CLI or config) and use its contents directly inside templates
  • Imported colors receive full multi-format support, just like built-in palette colors
  • Useful for adding custom theme data, config variables, or full color schemes

• Palette Customization

  • Adjust contrast, lightness and choose the scheme type (light, dark, or custom variants)
  • Fine-tune the generated palette to match your preference or application theme

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

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cargo install matugen

Arch

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AUR:

yay -S matugen-bin

Arch extra repo

sudo pacman -S matugen

NixOS

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Add matugen to your flake inputs:

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

Then you can add it to your packages:

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

This flake also provides a NixOS/Home Manager module, which can be imported by adding this in your configuration:

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

  # ...
}

The module does NOT automatically symlink the files. For an example of using this module with Home Manager, see https://github.com/InioX/matugen/issues/28

Option details can be found by reading the module. A search.nixos.org-like option viewer is planned.

NetBSD

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pkgin install matugen

or, if you prefer to build it from source

cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/matugen
make install

Acknowledgements

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

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.