hypercolor
Your world is a canvas:
paint every pixel.
Open-source RGB lighting for Linux, macOS, and Windows. One app paints every zone of your PC and every light in your house at 60fps. Motherboards, keyboards, mice, cases, fans, LED strips, Hue, Nanoleaf, and WLED, all driven by HTML Canvas, WebGL, and GLSL.
Built For Pros
Streaming studios, music rigs, and physical spaces. One engine, three flavors of pro work.
Streamers & Creators
Your stream studio, synced to your voice.
- Audio FFT reactive backgrounds during live broadcasts
- On-air key lights that shift to red on mic mute
- Brand palette locked across keyboard, case, and room
- Screen capture ambilight for immersive recording
Performers & Producers
One engine for DAW, keys, and stage.
- Ableton Push 2 as a first-class device
- MIDI reactive lighting across keyboards and strips
- Studio accents synced to DAW playback
- Stage rigs driven from the same canvas as the booth
Installations
A lighting console that runs on a laptop.
- Hue Entertainment, Nanoleaf, WLED, and DMX on one engine
- Whole space orchestration under 20ms latency
- Scene cues triggered from MIDI, network, or schedule
- Open source and vendor neutral, no per-fixture license
Hardware Support
PC motherboards, keyboards, mice, cases, fans, and network lights. Native drivers for real hardware across Linux, macOS, and Windows, every protocol decoded.
Ableton
Push 2 display and RGB pads
ASUS
Motherboards, ROG, AURA-compatible
Corsair
Lighting Node, Link, Keyboards, Mice
Dygma
Defy keyboard with per-key RGB
Lian Li
UNI Hub SL/AL, TL fans, L-Connect controllers
Nanoleaf
Shapes, Canvas, Lines, Elements panels
Philips Hue
Hue Bridge, bulbs, strips, Play bars
PrismRGB
Prism 8, Prism S, Mini, Nollie 8
QMK
Custom keyboards with per-key RGB
Razer
Huntsman V2, Basilisk V3, Blade, Seiren
WLED
LED strips, matrices, any WLED device
Transport Layer
Direct hardware control on Linux, macOS, and Windows
WLED strips and matrices via mDNS discovery
Hue Bridge realtime streaming under 20ms
Nanoleaf realtime panel streaming
Motherboard ARGB via kernel driver
Pad and key lighting for music controllers
Built Different
One engine to orchestrate every RGB device, from your PC to your whole house. Powered by web standards, driven by Rust.
One App, Every Device
Motherboards, keyboards, mice, cases, fans, LED strips, and network zones. Every RGB device you own routes through one unified pipeline.
Web-Native Effects
Write effects in HTML Canvas, WebGL, or pure GLSL. An embedded Servo browser renders them and samples onto your physical LEDs at 60fps.
Audio-Reactive
Full FFT analysis with beat detection and BPM tracking. Bass, mid, treble. Your lights move to your music in real time.
Spatial Mapping
Drag-and-drop layout editor maps your physical desk to a virtual canvas. Position devices with rotation and scaling.
Cross-Platform
Linux, macOS, Windows. One codebase, three operating systems. Native HID, SMBus, UDP, and MIDI transports on all of them.
Multi-Zone Sync
One canvas, every corner of your world. PC zones, desk strips, Hue, Nanoleaf, and WLED all resampled from the same render loop in perfect sync.
The Library
Forty-three effects ship preloaded. Audio-reactive, interactive, shader-heavy, calm, or chaotic. All written in HTML Canvas, WebGL, or GLSL.
Synthwave Pack
04 effectsSynth Horizon
Chrome sun sinking behind a wireframe grid.
Neon City
Cinematic skyline with flickering windows and rooftop beacons.
Roller Rink
Retro arcade palette sweep.
Cyber Descent
Raymarched neon void with chromatic dispersion.
Cosmic Pack
05 effectsHyperspace
Star lanes streak into infinite trails.
Voidweaver
Hypnotic infinite tunnel raymarch.
Nebula Drift
Multi-layered space nebula with starfield.
Starfall
Meteor showers across the grid.
Wormhole
Domain-warped portal rings pulsing with sound.
Audio Reactive Pack
05 effectsIris
Sacred geometry tied to Circle of Fifths.
Cymatics
Spring-physics geometry shaped by sound.
Frequency Cascade
Columnar spectrum visualizer.
Spectral Fire
Audio-reactive flame tongues with embers.
Arc Storm
Fractal lightning arcs on every beat.
Organic Pack
04 effectsLava Lamp
Slow-motion fluid dynamics.
Ink Tide
Domain-warped ink bleed.
Deep Current
Bioluminescent underwater flow.
Borealis
Aurora curtains ripple across a starlit sky.
43 total · 18 featured · 11 audio-reactive · 9 interactive
Fractalux, Breakthrough, Plasma Engine, Shockwave, Bubble Garden, Nyan Dash, and more. All shipped preloaded.
Five Ways In
Five first-class UIs, all talking to the same Hypercolor app. Work the way you want.
Web UI
Visual command center with live performance telemetry, drag-and-drop layouts, spatial mapping, and full effect control.
Leptos · WASM · Tailwind
Terminal UI
Full terminal instrument with live canvas preview rendered inside your terminal via Kitty and Sixel protocols.
Ratatui · Crossterm
CLI
Thirteen subcommands for scripting and automation. Effects, devices, scenes, layouts, profiles, diagnostics.
clap · hypercolor
System Tray
Always-on menu bar presence. Quick effect switching, brightness, and profile toggles without leaving your desktop.
tray-icon · native
Desktop
Native window wrapper for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Works offline with the local app, webview under the hood.
Tauri 2 · webview
Get Started
Get up and running in minutes. Choose your preferred installation method.
$cargo install hypercolorThen run it
hypercolor-daemonStart the apphypercolor effects listBrowse effectshypercolor effects activate borealisApply an effectMulti-Zone
One canvas, every corner of your world. The render loop resamples every zone (PC, desk, room, house) from the same source frame in under 20ms latency. Hue Entertainment, Nanoleaf streaming, WLED DDP, USB HID, SMBus, and MIDI all route through one engine, frame synced.
SparkleFlinger
Deadline-driven compositor that owns the frame clock. Effects, screen capture, and Servo each run at their own cadence. SparkleFlinger latches the newest ready surface from every producer, composites with gamma-aware blend modes on CPU or GPU, and hands an immutable frame to spatial sampling.
Architecture
Rust, Servo, and wgpu. Adaptive FPS render loop with five tiers (10, 20, 30, 45, 60). Lock-free event bus for frame data and discrete events. Spatial sampler maps a configurable RGBA canvas to every LED in every zone. Edition 2024, no unsafe code, clippy pedantic at deny.
Developer SDK
Effects are HTML pages. Write them in pure GLSL, WebGL, Canvas 2D, or full TypeScript. The SDK auto-generates controls from effect metadata, supports the LightScript API, and ships with a Bun build pipeline. Native Rust effects supported via the EffectRenderer trait.