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Makers of iStat Menus, Snowflake, Pinwheel, Skala, and other great apps.
Pinwheel 1.8 is out with realtime color proofing. This means you can view and edit with filters to simulate Night Shift, color blindness (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Achromatopsia), or see which colors are outside the sRGB color space. All in realtime! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pinwheel 1.8 is out with realtime color proofing. This means you can view and edit with filters to simulate Night Shift, color blindness (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Achromatopsia), or see which colors are outside the sRGB color space. All in realtime! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
Robot Rocket is now available as a VST plugin! bjango.com/plugin/robot...
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Robot Rocket is now available as a VST plugin! bjango.com/plugin/robot...
Hello, this is Robot Rocket. It vocodes and you can not stop it. bjango.com/plugin/robot...
September 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Hello, this is Robot Rocket. It vocodes and you can not stop it. bjango.com/plugin/robot...
We’ve been busy! Over the last couple of weeks, we released Pinwheel 1.7 and 1.7.1, fixing some macOS 26 related bugs, and adding a new Icon Composer app icon. We’ve also been working hard on the next update for iStat Menus.
September 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We’ve been busy! Over the last couple of weeks, we released Pinwheel 1.7 and 1.7.1, fixing some macOS 26 related bugs, and adding a new Icon Composer app icon. We’ve also been working hard on the next update for iStat Menus.
Pinwheel 1.6.1 is out! It fixes some bugs and adds the ability to copy colours in any format and colour space. If you’d like to copy colours in the format that matches their properties, just use “copy”. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
August 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Pinwheel 1.6.1 is out! It fixes some bugs and adds the ability to copy colours in any format and colour space. If you’d like to copy colours in the format that matches their properties, just use “copy”. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
Pinwheel 1.6 is out! Colour format is now remembered per-colour, which means you can use hex values for sRGB colours and oklch() for Display P3, if you want. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Pinwheel 1.6 is out! Colour format is now remembered per-colour, which means you can use hex values for sRGB colours and oklch() for Display P3, if you want. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
Pinwheel 1.5.4 is out! It now shows values in the table view. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
June 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Pinwheel 1.5.4 is out! It now shows values in the table view. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
The vocal effects of Daft Punk. Our latest article required a couple of years of research, buying lots of equipment, and countless tests. We hope you like it! bjango.com/articles/daf...
May 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The vocal effects of Daft Punk. Our latest article required a couple of years of research, buying lots of equipment, and countless tests. We hope you like it! bjango.com/articles/daf...
Pinwheel 1.5.2 is out. It’s mostly bug fixes, but we’ve also added a big table mode. It’s like the table mode, but bigger! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
April 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Pinwheel 1.5.2 is out. It’s mostly bug fixes, but we’ve also added a big table mode. It’s like the table mode, but bigger! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
Pinwheel can create colour gradients and multi-elevation shadows that can be imported into Figma as variables and effect styles. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
March 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Pinwheel can create colour gradients and multi-elevation shadows that can be imported into Figma as variables and effect styles. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
Article: Matching drop shadows across CSS, Android, iOS, Figma, and Sketch. bjango.com/articles/mat...
March 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Article: Matching drop shadows across CSS, Android, iOS, Figma, and Sketch. bjango.com/articles/mat...
Pinwheel 1.5 is out! It adds support for shadows, shadow sets, and shadow aliases. This makes it easy to build shadows with varying levels of elevation. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
March 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Pinwheel 1.5 is out! It adds support for shadows, shadow sets, and shadow aliases. This makes it easy to build shadows with varying levels of elevation. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
✎ Article: Design systems need a colour space. bjango.com/articles/des...
March 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
✎ Article: Design systems need a colour space. bjango.com/articles/des...
Pinwheel 1.4.2 is out, with OKLCH and OKLAB support across the entire app! You can now use the CSS oklch() and oklab() formats in the colour picker, when copying values, and as a display format for the grid view. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
February 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Pinwheel 1.4.2 is out, with OKLCH and OKLAB support across the entire app! You can now use the CSS oklch() and oklab() formats in the colour picker, when copying values, and as a display format for the grid view. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
iStat Menus 7 introduced a simplified sensor list, which helps focus on the important sensors. If you’d like to see them all, switch the sensor display mode to “detailed”.
February 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
iStat Menus 7 introduced a simplified sensor list, which helps focus on the important sensors. If you’d like to see them all, switch the sensor display mode to “detailed”.
Oh, and the Pinwheel Figma plugin has also been updated. It can now import and export all variable types to and from Design Tokens JSON files. The plugin is free. Tell your friends! www.figma.com/community/pl...
January 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Oh, and the Pinwheel Figma plugin has also been updated. It can now import and export all variable types to and from Design Tokens JSON files. The plugin is free. Tell your friends! www.figma.com/community/pl...
Pinwheel 1.3 is out! We’ve added a bunch of features recently, including support for numbers, booleans, and strings. We’re well on our way to become a full featured design system manager. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
January 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pinwheel 1.3 is out! We’ve added a bunch of features recently, including support for numbers, booleans, and strings. We’re well on our way to become a full featured design system manager. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
Pinwheel was mentioned in iOS Dev Weekly! Thanks, @daveverwer.com. If you’re even vaguely interested in developing for Apple’s platforms, iOS Dev Weekly is a great read. Highly recommended. iosdevweekly.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Pinwheel was mentioned in iOS Dev Weekly! Thanks, @daveverwer.com. If you’re even vaguely interested in developing for Apple’s platforms, iOS Dev Weekly is a great read. Highly recommended. iosdevweekly.com
Say hi to the Pinwheel Figma plugin. It exports colour variables as Design Tokens JSON. We think it might be the first plugin to do this with full support of sRGB and Display P3. Also, it’s free. We hope you like it! www.figma.com/community/pl...
December 13, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Say hi to the Pinwheel Figma plugin. It exports colour variables as Design Tokens JSON. We think it might be the first plugin to do this with full support of sRGB and Display P3. Also, it’s free. We hope you like it! www.figma.com/community/pl...
Pinwheel 1.1 is out. It now supports high contrast variants of colours (light, light high contrast, dark and dark high contrast) and a way to automatically generate high contrast versions of colours.
December 6, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Pinwheel 1.1 is out. It now supports high contrast variants of colours (light, light high contrast, dark and dark high contrast) and a way to automatically generate high contrast versions of colours.
Pinwheel does WCAG and APCA contrast testing, and so much more.
November 19, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Pinwheel does WCAG and APCA contrast testing, and so much more.
Say hello to Pinwheel, an amazing way to convert colors and create design systems. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/
November 19, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Say hello to Pinwheel, an amazing way to convert colors and create design systems. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/