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Products that do what Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS does

Hi HN, in my last vacation, I built desktopcolors.com as a place to collect iconic solid background colors. Let me know what you think.

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   Colors Used by Popular Sites▲179

   2016 · paulhebertdesigns.com

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   Flat UI Colors▲160

   Great colors for your flat designs.

   2014

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   UI.Colors▲85

   Small web app with a bunch UI colors

   2014

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   Desktopr▲144

   Make any website your Mac wallpaper

   2016

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   Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks▲215

   I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels. Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design. Please share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is…

   May 2026 · paletteinspiration.com

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   Material UI Colors▲198

   Color palette for material design

   2015

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   Live Desktop▲240

   Make your Mac desktop come alive with animated themes

   2016

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   What Color Is It?▲136

   See the hex color for every second of the day

   2014

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   Desktop Fruit▲140

   Curated Mac application designs

   2016

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    98.css▲256

    A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

    2020

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    Palette For Mac▲205

    A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

    2016

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    OS (Old School)▲187

    Turn you computer into a retro Mac

    2022

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    Hologram▲95

    Amazing widgets and wallpapers for your Mac desktop!

    2020

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    Materialette▲177

    A material design color palette on macOS / Windows / Linux

    2016

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    Colorsinspo▲308

    All in one resource for finding everything about colors

    2020

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    Galaxy Mac OS X Remastered Wallpapers▲150

    Classic Mac OS X wallpapers now in 6K + P3 color gamut

    2021

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    Matte Black▲87

    Simple site for color inspiration

    2015

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    Material Colors▲133

    A tool for material design colors

    2016

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    Material Colors Native▲124

    Material colors native app for OS X

    2016

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    System.css▲116

    A design system for building retro Apple UIs

    2022

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    remove.bg for Desktop▲291

    Remove image backgrounds 100% automatically on Win/Mac/Linux

    2019

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    Color Library▲116

    Automated color separation

    2016

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    ColorHub▲178

    Find the perfect color palette for your next project

    2021

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    UI Palette▲220

    UI colors, tools & trends all in one place

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