6 releases, newest first
Changelog
This changelog lists every release of Recolor (recolor.page), which went from an empty repository to a live palette generator that repaints real web pages in 6 releases over two days, October 7 and 8, 2026. The newest is first; each entry says what changed for someone using the app.
Last updated
| Date | Release | In one line |
|---|---|---|
| October 8, 2026 | Docs, guides and palettes | This site: docs, guides, comparisons and a palette gallery; real 404 pages |
| October 8, 2026 | A new interface | The interface rebuilt on one design system, live after midnight |
| October 7, 2026 | Launch on recolor.page | Live at recolor.page; reorder, names, contrast, Site colours, Export, saved palettes |
| October 7, 2026 | Live repaint | The loaded page repaints in the palette as you press Space |
| October 7, 2026 | Loading real pages | Any public address or HTML file loads into the preview, scripts on or off |
| October 7, 2026 | The palette generator | Space, lock, adjust, copy, add, remove, move, undo, the palette in the URL |
October 8, 2026: docs, guides and palettes
- These pages: the docs, guides to website palettes, comparisons with other palette tools, and a gallery of named palettes with their hex codes and code to paste.
- The app page now has a short introduction that readers without JavaScript and search engines can read.
- An address that does not exist is reported as "The site could not be reached" everywhere; before, a missing domain could show as a server error.
- Unknown addresses on recolor.page answer with a real "not found" page instead of the app.
- The fetcher's user agent now points at its own page, which explains why it visited a site.
October 8, 2026: a new interface
- One design system for the whole app: light cards on a grey ground, one blue button per view, the Figtree typeface.
- Site colours, Saved palettes and Export open as panels at the right that follow the palette while you work.
- Export has a tab per format and an explicit Copy; Export formats shows each one.
- Upload is now two steps, Choose file and Load, so the asset base URL can be set first.
- On phones the toolbar takes two rows, with the rest under More.
October 7, 2026: launch on recolor.page
- Recolor went live at recolor.page, with www redirecting to it.
- Swatches can be dragged into a new order, or moved with Shift and the arrow keys.
- Each swatch shows its nearest CSS color name and whether black and white text pass WCAG AA on it.
- Site colours lists the page's colors and pins any of them to a swatch, or keeps it as it is.
- Export writes the palette as CSS variables, a Tailwind v4
@themeblock, SCSS, JSON, a hex list, a Coolors link or a link to the view. - Palettes can be saved in the browser, up to 50.
- Animate changes and Grey images joined the Mapping panel; page loads are rate limited and briefly cached.
October 7, 2026: live repaint
- The product was named Recolor.
- A loaded page now repaints in the palette as you press Space: every color on it becomes a CSS variable, and a new palette rewrites the variables. How Recolor repaints a page explains the engine.
- Shades of one hue move together, text stays readable, and greys take a tint of the first color.
- The Mapping panel arrived with Strength, Neutral tint and Use site colours; see the mapping.
- Space and undo work while the page in the preview has the focus.
October 7, 2026: loading real pages
- Any public web address loads into the preview through Recolor's Worker, which puts the page's stylesheets inline and passes its fonts on.
- An HTML file can be uploaded or dropped on the preview, with an asset base URL for its relative links.
- A Scripts switch loads a page with or without its JavaScript.
- Every failure explains itself in plain words, with Retry; see Loading a page.
- Links inside a loaded page open in the preview, and
?site=in Recolor's address loads a page on start.
October 7, 2026: the palette generator
- Space generates a palette of 5 colors from a color scheme and a ladder of lightness; locked colors stay.
- Each color can be adjusted with hue, saturation and lightness sliders or a hex code, copied, regenerated alone, moved and removed, and a + adds one between two colors, from 2 up to 10.
- Undo and redo cover 100 steps.
- The palette lives in the URL in Coolors' format, so a Coolors link pastes in; see the URL format.
- 3 sample pages show the palette on a landing page, a dashboard and a blog article.
Common questions
Is Recolor still being developed?
Yes. The newest release is from October 8, 2026, and this page lists each one with its date.
Do palette links from the first release still work?
Yes. The palette hash has kept the same format since the first release: hex codes joined by hyphens after the #.
Does Recolor have a version number?
Yes: 0.1.0, shown in its fetcher's user agent, Recolor/0.1.0.
Is Recolor free?
Yes. Every feature in this changelog is free to use, with no account.
Is Recolor's code open source?
No. The code is not public at the moment.