Palettes

Palettes is a panel plugin designed to help you work with colors across multiple apps and platforms. Add, Edit and Name your colors per file then copy hex codes with one click, all from the UI.

Create and store your own palettes locally, or reference builtin community palettes.

Current Builtin Palettes:

• Catppuccin (Latte, Frappé, Macchiato, Mocha)
• Dracula (Dracula, Alucard)
• Eldrictch (Abyss, Cthulhu, Dusk)
• Gruvbox (Dark, Light)
• Kanagawa (Wave, Lotus and Dragon are planned)
• Nord (All colors combined)
• Rosé Pine (Default, Moon, Dawn)

Plugin

Field	Value
ID	soul/palettes
Entries	Bar widget: bar; panel: panel

Usage

• Add the Palettes widget to your bar or.
• Create a compositor keybind with the following IPC command:

noctalia msg panel-toggle soul/palettes:panel

Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
columns	int	3	Number of columns to display in panel.
show_builtin	bool	true	Include the bundled palettes (Catppuccin, Nord, and others) in the palette list.

Notes

• This plugin was made with help from AI. And manually tested with every change.
• If you would like a palette to be included in the plugin open a PR for builtin.json
• Local palettes are written to the plugin data directory, Default: ~/.local/state/noctalia/plugins/

Common Errors:

• Couldn't read your palettes. The old file was kept as "palettes.json.bak" If you see this message, your old file is saved as palettes.json.bak; fix it manually in the plugin data folder ~/.local/state/noctalia/plugins/data/soul/palettes and reload the plugin through your settings window.

Attribution:

• Catppuccin
• Dracula
• Eldrictch
• Gruvbox
• Kanagawa
• Nord
• Rosé Pine