Colorful ![Awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) by Siddharth11

A curated list of awesome resources to choose your next color scheme

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Verdict 61/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty

Self-host Colorful ![Awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
61 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
1.3k
54 forks

About Colorful ![Awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

From the project's README at github.com/Siddharth11/Colorful. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

A curated list of awesome resources to choose your next color scheme. Inspired by the awesome list. Please read the contribution guidelines before contributing. Table of Contents Tools Libraries Web App Color Palettes Articles Tools Libraries Chroma.js - JavaScript library for dealing with colors. pigment - Color information, conversion and manipulation library GradStop.js - Generate gradient color stops. Adaptive Backgrounds - Extract dominant colors from images and apply to its parent (jQuery Plugin). Coloor - Image preloading utility. Color Thief - Grab color palette from an image. Colorify.js - Simple, customizable, tiny JavaScript color extractor. Colofilter.css - Duotone filters made with CSS. [Polychrom

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
77
maturity
30
community
97
security
70
sustainability
65
adoption
25

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

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GitHub stars 1.3k github.com/Siddharth11/Colorful
GitHub forks 54 github.com/Siddharth11/Colorful

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age10.0 yearssince Apr 2016
Last commit1.2 years agoMar 13, 2025

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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