Kamiliyon is the new name for colorsbymax, and from 0.7.0 the package is kamiliyon. Already on colorsbymax? See Moving from colorsbymax: a reinstall and a find-and-replace on your imports. Your config, attributes and visitors' saved themes carry over.

A floating theme switcher for websites. Visitors (or the site's owner) can re-color the whole site instantly: pick one of the site's own themes, a hand-tuned pick, or one of 715 library themes in 14 categories; build and share custom palettes; or override single colors. Every theme is checked against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) contrast rules, with one-click fixes.

At a glance

• Two steps. npm install kamiliyon, then import 'kamiliyon/auto' once. The color button appears and visitors can re-color the site, even if its colors are hard-coded (see Quick start).
• Go as deep as you like. One click recolors the whole site; Studio colors it part by part; Subtle, Balanced or Colorful sets how bold it is; and a contrast guard keeps every piece of text readable.
• React 18 or 19.
• Tailwind optional. The panel carries its own styles, so it works with Tailwind v4, older Tailwind or plain CSS. Your site only needs to paint its colors with var(--color-…) variables. The optional kamiliyon/tokens.css helper is for Tailwind v4 (@theme syntax); without Tailwind v4, define the variables yourself.
• TypeScript types included.
• No runtime dependencies besides React. PDF uploads are opt-in and need pdfjs-dist (see PDF uploads).
• ESM only. Import it from a bundler or import(); require('kamiliyon') from CommonJS isn't supported.
• The color tools work on their own too. contrastRatio, checkTheme, suggestFix, fixAll, themeFromPalette, darkTokens and the rest are plain functions with no UI.

Quick start

npm install kamiliyon

Then add one line anywhere in your site's code, for example main.jsx:

import 'kamiliyon/auto'

That's all. The color button appears in the bottom-right corner once the page has loaded, and visitors can start swapping the site's colors. (npm doesn't let a package change your site on install, so this one line is the only step.)

• Any site's colors. If your site doesn't use Kamiliyon's color variables, Kamiliyon reads the colors actually on the page (backgrounds, text, borders, gradients and icons) and swaps each for its counterpart in the chosen theme: greys follow the theme's background and text, brand shades follow its brand color, and success and error colors keep their meaning. Content added later is re-colored too, and picking the site's own theme brings back the exact original.

• Settings. Use autoMount instead of the plain import:

  import { autoMount } from 'kamiliyon/auto'
  autoMount({ siteName: 'My site', storageKey: 'my-site-theme' })

• Logos keep their own colors unless a visitor turns on "Color the logo too" in settings. Mark your logo with data-colorsbymax-logo if Kamiliyon doesn't find it (it looks for "logo" in a class, id or label).

• Where automatic re-coloring falls short: images keep their colors, hover and focus colors keep the site's own, and colors drawn by ::before/::after aren't swapped. For full control, use the color variables below; Kamiliyon then applies themes to them directly, with no page reading at all.

Already installed it? Get the newest version with npm install kamiliyon@latest (see Updating).

Try the demo

Kamiliyon's home, mrmaxdesigns.com/colorsbymax, is the demo: open the color button and the whole page re-colors. To run it locally:

npm install
npm run dev

This serves demo/, the same site: built with Tailwind, where every color is a token, and every token group is used. Its sections are in demo/site/.

Coding agents (MCP)

Your coding agent can set Kamiliyon up and use it for you. kamiliyon-mcp is an MCP server that gives Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Google Antigravity, Gemini CLI, Grok Build, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Kiro, Zed, JetBrains, Cline, opencode and other agents Kamiliyon's own tools:

| The agent can… | Tool | | --- | --- | | Look at your project and add Kamiliyon the right way for its framework: Vite, Next.js, Remix, Gatsby, Astro, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Vue, Svelte or plain HTML | setup_plan | | Find themes by mood, category or closeness to your brand color, in light or dark | find_themes, get_theme | | Build a complete, accessible theme around your brand colors | theme_from_colours | | Check contrast and suggest the smallest fixes | check_contrast | | Make your chosen colors the default and hide the switcher in production, or remove Kamiliyon and keep them | finish | | Read these docs and the full TypeScript API | docs |

It reads your project but never changes it: the agent makes the edits, so you review them as usual. It runs with npx, so there's nothing to install first (Node 18 or later).

Adding the server doesn't change your site by itself. It gives your agent the tools; the agent then sets Kamiliyon up when you ask:

1. Add the server once, with the steps for your editor below.
2. Start a new chat or session in your project. Agents load MCP servers when a session starts, so one that was already open won't see it yet.
3. Ask: "Add Kamiliyon to this project." The agent installs the package and adds the one line (or the right version of it for your framework).
4. Run your site (for example npm run dev). The color button appears in the bottom-right corner.

Claude Code

claude mcp add kamiliyon -- npx -y kamiliyon-mcp

That adds it for you in this project. Add --scope user to have it in every project, or --scope project to share it with your team through a .mcp.json file. Check it with /mcp inside Claude Code.

If your terminal says claude isn't found (the desktop app doesn't always put it on your PATH), ask Claude Code itself: "Add the Kamiliyon MCP server: npx -y kamiliyon-mcp."

Cursor

Add this to .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or to ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kamiliyon": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "kamiliyon-mcp"] }
  }
}

It then shows under Settings → MCP, and Cursor's agent uses it when you ask about colors or themes.

VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json, then use it from Copilot Chat in Agent mode:

{
  "servers": {
    "kamiliyon": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "kamiliyon-mcp"] }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config, add the same mcpServers entry as Cursor to claude_desktop_config.json, and restart Claude Desktop.

GitHub Copilot CLI

copilot mcp add kamiliyon -- npx -y kamiliyon-mcp

Or type /mcp add inside copilot. It's saved to ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json.

Codex (OpenAI)

codex mcp add kamiliyon -- npx -y kamiliyon-mcp

It's saved to ~/.codex/config.toml, which the Codex IDE extension shares. To write it by hand:

[mcp_servers.kamiliyon]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "kamiliyon-mcp"]

Google Antigravity

In the agent panel, open … → MCP Servers → Manage MCP Servers → View raw config, add the same mcpServers entry as Cursor to ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json, and save. Antigravity reloads it by itself. For one project, use .agents/mcp_config.json. In the Antigravity CLI, /mcp opens the same manager.

Gemini CLI

Add the same mcpServers entry as Cursor to ~/.gemini/settings.json (or .gemini/settings.json in your project), restart Gemini CLI, and check it with /mcp.

Grok Build (xAI)

grok mcp add kamiliyon -- npx -y kamiliyon-mcp

It's saved to ~/.grok/config.toml; add --scope project for .grok/config.toml. The first start downloads the server, so if it times out, raise startup_timeout_sec for it in that file.

Windsurf, Kiro, JetBrains, Cline and Roo

They take the same mcpServers entry as Cursor:

• Windsurf: ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
• Kiro: .kiro/settings/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json. Kiro doesn't read your shell's PATH, so use the full path to npx if it can't start.
• JetBrains: AI Assistant under Settings → Tools → AI Assistant → Model Context Protocol (MCP); Junie under Settings → Tools → Junie → MCP Settings.
• Cline and Roo Code: in the extension's MCP Servers view, choose Configure (or Edit MCP Settings).

Zed and opencode

Zed calls them context servers. In settings.json, or through Settings → AI → MCP Servers → Add Server:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "kamiliyon": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "kamiliyon-mcp"] }
  }
}

opencode, in opencode.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "kamiliyon": { "type": "local", "command": ["npx", "-y", "kamiliyon-mcp"] }
  }
}

Any other MCP client

Most take the same mcpServers entry as Cursor: the command is npx, with -y kamiliyon-mcp as its arguments.

On Windows, if an editor can't start npx, use "command": "cmd" with "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "kamiliyon-mcp"].

What to ask

• "Add Kamiliyon to this project."
• "Find me a calm ocean theme that also works in dark mode."
• "Build a theme around our brand colors #e63946 and #1d3557, and check its contrast."
• "Does white text pass on #f59e0b?"
• "I've picked my colors in the panel. Make them the default and hide the switcher in production." Paste the theme from the panel's Import / export, or name the theme.

Without MCP

Any coding agent can still do it from a prompt. Paste this into Claude, Cursor, Copilot or another agent:

Install the Kamiliyon npm package in this project and add import 'kamiliyon/auto' to the app's entry file, so the Kamiliyon color button appears on every page. For Next.js, Remix or other server-rendered apps, load it in the browser only, with import('kamiliyon/auto') inside a useEffect. Follow https://github.com/MaxMuyalwa/kamiliyon#quick-start and don't change anything else.

When you're done choosing colors, the panel's I'm done button gives you ready-made prompts for keeping your colors, hiding the switcher or removing it (see Finished?).

Features

• Site themes first. The panel opens on a group named after the site, holding its own colors. If those fail contrast, an accessible version is generated automatically.
• Scan the site. Press "Scan site" and Kamiliyon reads the colors actually painted on the page (ignoring any theme it has applied, and including gradients). It works out the page background, surfaces, text and brand colors, then adds themes named after the site: Scanned (as found), Accessible, Soft, Bold, Complementary, and the closest library matches. Scans run only when asked, and the results are remembered.
• Max’s picks and library. 5 hand-tuned picks, plus 715 library themes (Bright, Fun, Pastel, Earth tones, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Ocean, Warm, Nature, Moody, Monochrome, Eclectic) with search and "Surprise me". The library loads only when the panel opens.
• Custom palettes, single-color overrides, import and export as JSON or CSS.
• Pick a color from your site. Click a button, the background or some text; Kamiliyon works out the job that color does and builds five themes around it. See Pick a color from your site.
• Palettes from images and PDFs. In Import / export, upload or drop a mood board, screenshot or photo, or paste one straight from the clipboard: take a screenshot, open the panel and press Ctrl+V (⌘V on a Mac), or use Paste image. Kamiliyon picks out its main colors, lets you leave any out, previews the palette it builds around them and saves it as a custom palette. Nothing leaves the browser. PDFs, such as brand guides, work where the site turns them on; hex codes written in a PDF take priority.
• Contrast checks. Problems show as a badge on the theme; the breakdown offers per-item fixes or "Fix all automatically", which changes lightness only.
• No flash on reload. An inline pre-paint script applies the saved theme before the page draws.
• Works on any site. The panel carries its own stylesheet inside a shadow root, so it needs no Tailwind or other CSS from the site, and the site's CSS can't restyle it.
• Movable color button. The floating button starts in the corner; visitors can drag it anywhere (mouse or touch; a tooltip says so on hover, and an open panel moves with it) and it stays there, remembered across reloads. The panel then opens beside it, on whichever side has room. Its dot cycles through the current theme's colors.
• Three color styles. Subtle, Balanced or Colorful: as quiet or as bold as you like, with a strength slider and tints from your own pictures. See Color styles.
• A contrast guard, on every site and in every style. Every piece of text and every icon is checked against what it really sits on, and anything hard to read is fixed, keeping its hue. See The contrast guard.
• Know when there's an update. A bell in the panel, only where you work on your site, says when a newer Kamiliyon is out and how to update, with news from mrmaxdesigns. See The bell.
• Light and dark mode, for any site. Every built-in theme is designed light and has a generated dark twin (dark surfaces, light text, brand colors lifted until they read on dark, then contrast-checked). Switching to Dark, one click in the panel's header, turns the whole site dark, even one that never had a dark mode. Auto follows the visitor's device, and a light and dark switch can go anywhere on the site (see Dark mode). Custom palettes stay as they were made.
• Visitor settings. The gear in the panel header opens settings: theme mode (Light, Dark, Auto), panel size (Compact, Standard, Large), which groups and sections to show, whether the button can be dragged or its dot animates, and moving the button back to its corner. Saved per site.
• Resizable panel. Drag the panel's free edges or corner (the ones away from the color button) to any size, or pick a size in settings; double-click an edge to reset it. The layout follows the panel's width, so a large panel shows three theme cards a row.
• Studio: go deeper. Point and click any part of the page to give it its own colors (one part, every part like it, or every part on every page), with a readability check from the first click; choose which pages get the colors; audit the page; and keep it all as a prompt for your AI editor or as CSS. See Studio.
• Audit the page. Audit this page, in Studio, pins notes to what won't look right in the chosen colors: a logo that disappears, a picture whose background shows as a box, text too faint to read. See Check the page.
• Clear groups and feedback. The site's own group (globe), Max’s picks (paintbrush) and Yours (person) sit in their own row, apart from the library's categories. Toasts confirm what just happened; saving, importing or building a palette says it went to Yours and offers "Show" to jump straight to it. Tooltips are drawn in the panel's colors.
• Themed scrollbars. The page's scrollbars and the panel's slim one take the selected theme's primary color. Turn the page's off with scrollbars: false.
• Accessible panel. A labelled dialog with focus trap, Escape, the color button or an outside click to close, keyboard operable, and reduced-motion support.

Studio

Studio is the panel's deeper way of working. The quick switcher colors the whole site with one theme; Studio colors it part by part, exactly the way you want it. Open it with Studio in the panel's header; Back to the switcher returns to the quick one.

Point and click

Press Point and click. The panel steps aside and a bar at the bottom of the page says what to do. Hovering outlines each part of the page and names it (Button, Link, Heading, Card, Section, Header, Footer, Text…); a click picks it instead of following a link or pressing a button. Done in the bar, or Escape, goes back to Studio.

A card opens beside what you picked, with:

• What it is and where: "Card “Pricing”, in the “Plans” section".
• The part around it / The part inside it: step out from a heading to its card, or from a card to its section, and back in again, down to the text itself. When you've reached the text, the card says so and points you to Text color.
• Just this one / All N here / On every page: change only that part, every part like it on the page (the same element with the same classes), or every part like it on every page of the site.
• Background · Text color · Border: the current theme's colors as swatches, or any color from the color picker. Its own puts the part's own color back. A Border on a part that has none adds a thin outline.

Colors picked from the swatches follow the theme: pick a new theme and they take its colors. Colors from the color picker stay exactly as they are.

Readable from the first click

As soon as you pick something, Studio checks every piece of text in it (and in every part like it, when they change together) against what it really sits on, see-through backgrounds included, and says whether it's easy or hard to read, with its contrast ratio. Fix finds the text color that reads on all of it, preferring the theme's own colors, else black or white, and only offers one that passes. Swatches that would make the text hard to read carry a small "!" before you choose them; hover one for its ratio.

Where the colors go

Where the colors go chooses the whole site, or only some pages: color the landing page, say, and leave the app inside as it is. Studio offers the site's own pages (the ones the current page links to, and the ones you've opened), you can type a path, and a path ending in /* covers a whole section (/blog/* is /blog and every page under it). Pages left out keep their own colors exactly, dark mode included, and the quick switcher says so when you open it there, with Color this page too.

To make it the same for every visitor, set the pages option; Studio gives you the line, and a prompt for your AI editor.

Check the page

Audit this page looks at the page in the chosen colors and pins notes to what won't look right: a logo that disappears against its background (with a one-click "Color the logo", or tips when it's a picture Kamiliyon can't re-color, plus "Preview inverted"), pictures whose solid background shows as a box, and text or icons too faint to read. The notes stay on the page as you scroll; Re-check after a fix, and close it from its bar.

Keep it for good

Your changes are listed page by page (and "On every page"), each with an undo, and saved on your device; they're drawn before the page first shows, like the theme, so they never flash. Keep them for good turns them into:

• A prompt (recommended) for Claude, Cursor or Copilot: each change in plain words (the page, what the part says, where it is, the old and new colors), asking your editor to find the part in your code and use your own color settings where you have them. Changes on every page are marked as a shared component, to change where it's defined.
• CSS with the same changes. Its selectors come from the page as it is now, so the prompt holds up better if the layout changes.

Picking another theme while you have Studio changes asks first: keep them on the new theme, or clear them.

Pick a color from your site

The panel's Color picker section (between Preset themes and Custom palettes) lets you click any color already on your site and get five themes built around it: press Pick from the page. Hovering names each part, its color and the job that color does there ("Button · brand color · #6d28d9"); a click picks it instead of using it.

It knows where the color came from, because that says what job it does, and keeps it in that job:

| Picked from | Used as | |---|---| | a button or link (its fill, or its text when it has none) | the brand color: buttons, links and highlights | | a large area: the page, a section | the background | | dark text | the text color (colored text counts as the brand) | | a card or panel | the card color | | a soft fill: a badge, a band | a tint |

If it guessed wrong, change it with one tap: Brand, Background, Text, Card or Tint.

Five themes, your color kept exactly in its role:

1. Monochrome: your color and shades of itself.
2. Analogous: with a neighbouring hue.
3. Complementary: with the opposite hue.
4. Split: with a near-opposite hue.
5. Triadic: a bolder third hue.

Each follows Kamiliyon's rules. 60-30-10: a calm page and surfaces, supporting tints, the brand saved for what you click. Neutrals (surfaces, borders, shadows) borrow the brand's hue, so the page feels like one family. The text on a button is chosen by lightness, not hue, so a vivid yellow gets dark text; and a brand too light to read on a white page (a vivid yellow or green) goes on a dark page, where it reads. Success, warning, danger and info keep their meaning. Every pairing is checked, and each has a dark twin built the Kamiliyon way: deep tinted surfaces, softened white text, brand colors lifted to read.

Once you pick, the panel comes back open on the Color picker with a burst of your new colors. Each theme shows as many colors as your default (Panel settings → Colors per theme), with − and + to change it for that theme. Try shows one on the page; Save adds it to Yours, with its color count, where it keeps its dark twin. Switch the section off for everyone with features: { picker: false }.

Color styles

Every theme comes three ways. Choose in the panel's Color style section, above Preset themes:

| | What changes | Best for | |---|---|---| | Subtle | Your site keeps its own backgrounds, cards and text. The theme's color goes on buttons, links and highlights, with only a quiet, greyed hint of it on badges and tints. | Trying a new brand color without changing the feel of the site. | | Balanced | The theme in every role, with a soft wash of it across the page, cards and borders, so it shows even where a theme's own backgrounds are nearly white. Your site's own colors stay exactly as designed. | Seeing the theme as it's meant to be. The default on a site that paints with the color variables. | | Colorful | An overhaul: the page, cards and borders take a clear tint of the brand (soft in light mode, deeper in dark), and text and headings a hint of it. | A whole new look. The default on a site Kamiliyon re-colors. |

Strength. With Colorful on, a slider runs from Light wash through Soft and Lively to Bold: how much the page, sections and cards are tinted, whether headings take the brand color, and how deep the footer goes. Set where first-time visitors start with colourStrength (0 to 100).

Tints from your pictures. Tint with my pictures' colors (on by default) takes Colorful's washes from the site's logo and biggest photos, so they feel made for the site, while buttons and links keep the theme's colors. The panel shows the colors it found, with the one it uses outlined. Pictures from another site that doesn't allow reading them are skipped.

Color keeps its meaning. A filled button that isn't in the site's own brand color (a red delete, an amber warning, a green save, a blue info) is never repainted in the brand: it takes the theme's own danger, warning, success or info color, so it still says what it does. The words carry it too, for color-blind readers.

On a site Kamiliyon re-colors, Colorful also paints the page by role, as a designer would: the header, the hero, sections taking turns, headings, cards, badges, buttons, links and the footer. It reads what each section is and gives it its own treatment: pricing tables (the most popular plan ringed in the brand color), testimonials (on their own wash, with a brand bar on each), forms (a tinted band and a raised form box), image-led sections (kept on the plain page color so pictures show true) and the current page in the menu. On a site that paints with the color variables, Colorful works through those variables alone, so the site's own design still decides where each color goes.

Choose the style first-time visitors start in with colourStyle.

The contrast guard

Whatever the theme and style, Kamiliyon has the last word on readability. Once the colors are on the page, it checks every piece of text and every icon against what it actually sits on: its own background and every see-through one behind it, laid over each other, or each color of a gradient. Anything under WCAG AA (4.5:1 for text, 3:1 for large text and icons) is fixed:

1. Its own color, made lighter or darker until it reads, so a green "Paid" stays green and a red "Failed" stays red.
2. Else the theme color closest to it that reads.
3. Else black or white.

Light text on a solid fill, like white on a brand button, is kept light: the fill is deepened instead, keeping its hue, on the site's own colors and any theme alike. "What it sits on" includes a positioned sibling painted underneath, like the sliding pill behind the active item of a nav bar or tabs.

It works on every site and in every style, and in Studio's colors too. It runs when the colors or the page's content change (including a part of the page that sets color variables of its own, like a theme preview), never while the page scrolls. Hidden, disabled and aria-hidden parts are skipped. To keep a deliberate example of poor contrast as it is, mark it:

<div data-colorsbymax-contrast="keep">…</div>

The bell: updates and news

When a newer Kamiliyon is published, the panel says so: a small red plus appears on the color button and on the bell in the panel's header. The bell shows:

• the version you have and the latest one,
• the headlines of what changed, from the changelog,
• npm install kamiliyon@latest to copy,
• a prompt for Claude, Cursor or Copilot that updates it and makes any changes the changelog's "Upgrading" notes ask for,
• a link to the full changelog,
• and news from mrmaxdesigns: new features to try, and requests for feedback.

Opening the bell clears the plus.

Who sees it. By default only you, where you work on your site: development addresses (localhost, 127.0.0.1, names ending in .local, .localhost or .test, and private networks). Visitors to your live site never see it. updates: true shows it everywhere, and updates: false turns it off.

What it sends. Once a day at most, a few seconds after the page has loaded, the switcher asks the npm registry for the latest version, raw.githubusercontent.com for the changelog (only when there's an update), and mrmaxdesigns.com for the news. Those requests carry nothing but the usual details of any web request, no cookies, and nothing is stored about you. Offline, it simply skips the check.

How it works

Every color is one of 35 tokens (primary, surface, ink, data-1…), exposed as --color-<token> CSS variables. Applying a theme just sets those variables on <html>, so anything the site paints with var(--color-primary) (directly, or through Tailwind CSS v4 utilities like bg-primary) changes instantly. There's no rebuild and no re-render.

The switcher renders into a <colorsbymax-root> element on <body> with its own shadow root and stylesheet. Only the --color-* variables cross into it. With reduced motion, the color button's dot holds still on the theme's primary color.

Add it to a site

This is the full setup, for sites that want exact control over which color goes where. Kamiliyon needs React 18 or 19, and ships as plain JavaScript with TypeScript types, so Vite, Next.js, webpack and other bundlers use it without extra setup:

1. Paint the site with the token variables. Use var(--color-<token>) wherever the site sets a color, with your own colors as the starting values.

   With Tailwind CSS v4, import the defaults (kamiliyon/tokens.css is Tailwind v4 syntax), override them, and use the token utilities (bg-primary, text-ink, …) instead of hard-coded colors:

   @import "tailwindcss";
   @import "kamiliyon/tokens.css";
   
   @theme static {
     --color-primary: #c67cde; /* your colors */
   }

   With plain CSS, or Tailwind before v4, define the variables yourself:

   :root {
     --color-primary: #c67cde;
   }
   .button {
     background: var(--color-primary);
   }

2. Wrap the app and render the switcher:

   import { ThemeProvider, ThemeSwitcher } from 'kamiliyon'
   
   <ThemeProvider config={config}>
     <App />
     <ThemeSwitcher />
   </ThemeProvider>

   The switcher needs React but not a React site: autoMount from kamiliyon/auto mounts it on its own next to any page.

3. Add the pre-paint script to <head>, as a classic inline <script>, using the same storage key. prePaintScript(storageKey) returns its source, and demo/index.html shows it in place.

Without a siteName, the site group is named from the page's og:site_name, its title or its host name.

Config

{
  siteName: 'Tsungi',               // name of the first theme group
  storageKey: 'tsungi-theme',       // localStorage key (match the pre-paint script)
  defaultTheme: { name, tokens },   // the site's own colors; missing tokens are filled in
  themes: [{ id, name, tokens }],   // optional extra themes made for the site
  usage: { primary: 'Buttons…' },   // optional notes shown in the color editors
  scrollbars: true,                 // color the page's scrollbars from the theme (default)
  pdf: loadPdf,                     // optional: allow PDF uploads (see below)
  recolour: 'auto',                 // re-color hard-coded colors: 'auto' (only if the site has
                                    // no --color-* variables, the default), true or false
  position: 'bottom-right',         // where the button starts: bottom-right (default), bottom-left,
                                    // top-left, or top-right (just under a floating nav bar)
  hidden: import.meta.env.PROD,     // hide the button (the theme still applies), e.g. in production
  defaultMode: 'light',             // the mode first-time visitors start in: 'light' (default),
                                    // 'dark', or 'system' to follow their device
  colourLogo: false,                // themes color the logo too, for first-time visitors (default
                                    // false: it keeps its own colors); visitors can change it
  features: { scan: false },        // parts of the panel to switch off for everyone (all on by default):
                                    // picks, library, search, surprise, scan, custom, overrides,
                                    // importExport, audit, addToSite, colourStyle, colourCount, studio, picker
  pages: ['/', '/pricing'],         // only color these pages; the rest keep their own colors (default:
                                    // the whole site). '/blog/*' is /blog and every page under it
  updates: 'dev',                   // the bell (new versions, news): 'dev' only on development
                                    // addresses (default), true everywhere, false never
  colourStrength: 50,               // how strongly Colorful paints for first-time visitors, 0 (a light
                                    // wash) to 100 (bold); visitors can change it
  colourStyle: 'balanced',          // how boldly the site takes a theme, for first-time visitors:
                                    // 'subtle' keeps the site's own backgrounds and text and brings the
                                    // theme in on buttons, links and highlights; 'balanced' is the
                                    // theme with a soft wash (the default on a site that paints with the
                                    // variables); 'colorful' is an overhaul: tinted backgrounds and the
                                    // page painted by role (the default on a site Kamiliyon re-colors)
  intro: true,                      // the button pops in with a burst of the theme's colors a moment
                                    // after the page loads (default); reduced motion fades it in
}

A bar pinned above your nav (an announcement, a cookie notice)? Set its height on <html> and the color button and panel make room for it:

document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--colorsbymax-offset-top', `${bar.offsetHeight}px`)

Dark mode

Dark mode works on any site: every theme has a dark twin, so choosing Dark (or Auto, on a device set to dark) re-colors the whole page, and text, buttons and icons are checked for contrast on the dark background. It applies on every page load, and keeps working when the switcher is hidden in production.

Give visitors a light and dark switch anywhere, styled your way, by marking an element with data-colorsbymax-mode:

<button data-colorsbymax-mode="toggle">Light / dark</button>

Add a light and dark switch to your site, in the panel's settings (under Theme mode) and on the I'm done screen, previews one in your top bar and gives you ready-made code and an AI-editor prompt. toggle switches between light and dark; light, dark and system set one mode. Kamiliyon wires the click, remembers the choice and sets aria-pressed. The page is marked with the current mode, for anything your CSS wants to adjust, like photos:

html[data-colorsbymax-scheme="dark"] .hero-photo {
  filter: brightness(0.9);
}

With ThemeProvider, useTheme() gives mode ('light' or 'dark'), modeSetting (including 'system') and setMode(mode), for building your own switch.

PDF uploads

Building a palette from an image works out of the box. PDFs, such as brand guides, need PDF.js, which is large, so it's opt-in: install it and pass the loader from kamiliyon/pdf.

npm install pdfjs-dist

import { loadPdf } from 'kamiliyon/pdf'

<ThemeProvider config={{ ...config, pdf: loadPdf }}>

PDF.js still downloads only when a visitor picks a PDF. Sites that don't opt in never install or bundle it, and the upload offers images only.

examples/tsungi.config.js is a complete example for tsungi.online, the first site to use Kamiliyon.

Finished? Keep your colors and hide the switcher

The colors you pick in the panel are saved only in your own browser. When you're happy with them, press I'm done at the bottom of the panel. It shows your colors and three ways to finish, each with code to copy and a prompt you can paste into Claude, Cursor, Copilot or any AI editor. Cancel, keep using Kamiliyon takes you back without changing anything.

Keep the colors and hide it in production (recommended)

Make your pick the site's default for everyone, and keep the button out of production while it still shows when you run the site locally, so you can keep iterating:

// With the one-line setup, replace `import 'kamiliyon/auto'` with:
import { autoMount } from 'kamiliyon/auto'

autoMount({
  defaultTheme: { name: 'Ocean', tokens: { primary: '#0d6b84', /* …every color… */ } },
  hidden: import.meta.env.PROD,
})

With ThemeProvider, add the same defaultTheme and hidden to its config. The panel fills in all your colors for you. Not using Vite? Use process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' in place of import.meta.env.PROD (Next.js, webpack).

Bring it back later: it keeps showing in development. To show it in production again, set hidden: false or remove the line, or ask your AI editor: "Show the Kamiliyon color switcher again in production: in its config, set hidden to false or remove the hidden line."

Hide it on this device only

Hides the button in your browser straight away, with no code change and nothing different for anyone else. To bring it back, press Alt+Shift+C on the page, or open it with ?colorsbymax at the end of the address.

Remove Kamiliyon

1. npm uninstall kamiliyon
2. Delete its import (import 'kamiliyon/auto', autoMount, or ThemeProvider and ThemeSwitcher) and any Kamiliyon pre-paint script.
3. Keep your colors:
   • If your site uses the --color-* variables, paste the CSS the panel gives you (:root { --color-primary: …; … }) into your global stylesheet.
   • If Kamiliyon was re-coloring hard-coded colors for you, the chosen colors only exist while it runs, so your CSS needs updating to them. The panel's prompt asks your AI editor to do that.

To bring it back later, install it again and follow the Quick start.

Updating

npm install kamiliyon@latest

This moves you to the newest release and records it in your package.json. npm update alone isn't enough while Kamiliyon is below 1.0: with the usual ^0.1.0 range, npm treats 0.2.0 as a breaking change and stays on 0.1.x. Check which version you have with npm ls kamiliyon.

If it still installs the old version right after a release, npm is using its cached list of versions; add --prefer-online to check the registry:

npm install kamiliyon@latest --prefer-online

What changed in each release, and anything you need to do when upgrading, is in CHANGELOG.md.

From 0.5.0, Kamiliyon tells you itself: when a newer version is out, the bell in the panel shows it (where you work on your site), with what changed, this command to copy and a prompt for your AI editor. See The bell.

Moving from colorsbymax

Kamiliyon used to be published as colorsbymax. That package stops at 0.6.0; every release from 0.7.0 is kamiliyon. Moving takes a minute:

npm uninstall colorsbymax
npm install kamiliyon

Then change your imports. Everything after the name stays the same:

| Before | After | | --- | --- | | import 'colorsbymax/auto' | import 'kamiliyon/auto' | | import { autoMount } from 'colorsbymax/auto' | import { autoMount } from 'kamiliyon/auto' | | import { ThemeProvider, ThemeSwitcher } from 'colorsbymax' | import { ThemeProvider, ThemeSwitcher } from 'kamiliyon' | | import { loadPdf } from 'colorsbymax/pdf' | import { loadPdf } from 'kamiliyon/pdf' | | @import "colorsbymax/tokens.css"; | @import "kamiliyon/tokens.css"; | | npx -y colorsbymax-mcp (MCP server) | npx -y kamiliyon-mcp |

Nothing else changes. Your config, the data-colorsbymax-* attributes, the --color-* variables, the pre-paint script and your visitors' saved themes all keep working as they are. Using an AI editor? Ask it to "Move this project from colorsbymax to kamiliyon: uninstall colorsbymax, install kamiliyon, and change every import from 'colorsbymax' to 'kamiliyon'." The MCP server's setup_plan spots a project on the old name and gives the same steps.

Building the package

src/ is the source; dist/ is what sites install: plain JavaScript with the JSX compiled away. types/ holds the hand-written TypeScript declarations; npm run typecheck compiles types/check.tsx against them and checks they match the built exports. The panel's icons are copied from Lucide into src/icons.jsx by npm run icons. dist/ is committed so installs straight from GitHub work even when npm skips install scripts, so rebuild it before committing changes to src/. npm publish also rebuilds it first:

npm run build

README artwork

The hero, the section banners and the navigation chips are SVGs in docs/readme/, drawn by scripts/make-readme-art.mjs from Kamiliyon's own themes:

node scripts/make-readme-art.mjs

Panel styles

The panel is styled with Tailwind classes in src/ThemePanel.jsx and src/ThemeSwitcher.jsx. scripts/build-css.mjs compiles them, with src/panel.css, into src/panel-css.generated.js. The demo server does this automatically as you edit; otherwise run:

npm run css

Regenerating the library

npm run presets

scripts/generate-presets.mjs turns each source palette into a full theme, auto-fixes contrast, drops anything that still fails or duplicates another theme, names it and tags its categories. Adjust the category rules at the top of the script.

Notices

The library palettes come from nice-color-palettes (MIT). Its licence notice is in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and must ship with every copy.

PDF reading uses pdfjs-dist (Apache-2.0), installed as a dependency rather than bundled into Kamiliyon.

Licence

Kamiliyon is released under the MIT Licence. The names Kamiliyon and mrmaxdesigns are marks of Max Muyalwa and aren't covered by the code licence.