Colorchef: A Modular Color and UI Utility Tool

Siddhesh

Siddhesh Naik

🎨 Colorchef

Colorchef is a modular, all-in-one color and UI utility tool designed for indie developers, designers, and solopreneurs. It simplifies decision-making around color, shadows, layout, and components, helping you move faster without sacrificing visual quality.

✨ Features

🎨 Generate and tweak color palettes with ease
🪞 Build custom box shadows visually
🌒 Convert palettes to dark themes instantly
🔘 Checkout styled buttons with instant previews
📐 Generate golden-ratio palettes from images
⚡ Lightweight and responsive interface
📋 One-click copy for code snippets (CSS, HEX)

🧩 Modules

🎨 Colors

Generate beautiful and balanced color palettes using:
Random or contrast-based generation
Format: HEX
One-click copy for dev use

🪞 Shadows

Create aesthetic box shadows using:
Customizable offset, blur, spread, opacity
Real-time preview on card-style elements
Exportable CSS code snippet

🌒 Dark Palette

Generate accessible dark color palettes from light ones:
Auto contrast-adjusted variants
Maintain visual harmony across themes
Great for theme toggles or dark UI modes

🔘 Buttons

Design clean, customizable buttons:
Real-time preview of normal, hover and disabled states
Curated styles
Export plain CSS

📐 Golden Ratio

Use golden ratio to:
Generate beautiful palettes
Use random palettes
Use your images to generate custom palette from that

🛠️ Tech Stack

Tech Purpose Next.js Framework with routing and performance benefits Firebase For storing palettes and user auth TailwindCSS Utility-first styling with responsiveness

📸 Screenshots

Colors
Colors
Shadows
Shadows
Dark Palette
Dark Palette
Buttons
Buttons
Golden Ratio
Golden Ratio
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Posted Jul 2, 2025

Design faster with Colorchef — a developer-first toolkit for creating color palettes, shadows, dark themes, and styled components.