Acrylic

Acrylic is a desktop app for painters who work from reference images and need help translating them into real acrylic paint choices.

It lets you drop or paste an image, extract a dominant palette, match those colors to paints in the local catalog, track which paints you already own, save favorite mixes, and generate PDF exports for comparison or shopping.

Features

• Create projects from dropped, pasted, or selected images
• Extract dominant colors from the source image
• Match colors to real paints and generated mixing recipes
• Track owned paints as a working inventory
• Save favorite color recipes
• Export comparison, detail, and shopping-list PDFs

Data Storage

The app stores its data under ~/.local/share/trueblocks/acrylic/.

Important files and folders:

• acrylic.db — SQLite database with paints, projects, matches, and favorites
• state.json — persisted UI state
• projects/<id>/ — original images and thumbnails for each project

Development

yarn install
yarn start

Useful commands:

• yarn lint
• yarn type-check
• yarn test
• yarn build

Architecture Notes

• Backend: Go + Wails
• Frontend: React + TypeScript + Mantine
• Database: SQLite via modernc.org/sqlite
• Shared libraries: packages/appkit, packages/color, @trueblocks/ui, @trueblocks/scaffold