Desktopcolors.com
A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
Details
- External ID
- 49327643
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Desktopcolors.com
- Website domain
- desktopcolors.com
- Launched
- Aug. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 166
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9616935483870968
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphic design assets and utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- collection of classic os background colors
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a static content website/archive cataloging historical OS background hex colors, which can easily be built with Astro or plain HTML/CSS in hours.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: stylespark.dev, Virtual OS Museum, PCJs Machines
Concerns raised: Color accuracy dependent on hardware (video adapters, CRTs), Screenshots introduce color drift vs original OS values, Plan9/Rio unavailable in reliable sources
Feature requests: Tooltips when hovering over dots in Known Uses section, Clickable dots to show OS details, Filter by color to see which OSes shared a given color, Add CDE (late 90s) color scheme, Add Sun OpenWindows (1995) gray on mottled gray
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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- New Parts for Old Computers · hn · 2026-08-03 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Cm-colors –I got tired of manually fixing wcag contrast,so I made this · hn · 2025-12-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Retrodex · hn · 2026-05-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- UI Color System LAB · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- An OKLCH-based perceptually uniform color system/theme builder · hn · 2025-11-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- TryMyHome · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ImageColorPix · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.