Hue Bandit

🎨 Hue Bandit

Steal a sunset. Inject it into a haunted JPEG.

Hue Bandit is a browser-based tool for artists, designers, and anyone who thinks in color. It lets you rip color palettes from any image and rework them into animated loops, abstract collages, and layered experiments. Everything runs locally in your browser—no install, no logins, no weird dependencies. Just load it up and start bending hues.

Built by me, Dawnia / Letsglitchit, as part of a bigger project to make weird tools for weird people.

✴️ What It Does

Hue Bandit has two main creative modes—Animation and Segmentation—each with a whole playground of sliders, color pickers, and chaotic little surprises.

✦ Animation Mode

Make your images shift, shimmer, and evolve through different color palettes.

• Multi-keyframe transitions – Not just A-to-B; take a journey through up to 24 distinct color stages.
• Palette theft – Upload any image and grab its vibe.
• Loop controls – Pick easing curves, loop lengths, color fidelity, and how many frames you want.
• High-res output – Export a full PNG sequence as a .zip and stitch into GIFs or videos however you like.

Great for: color study, animated posters, glitch videos, cover art loops, accidental synesthesia.

✦ Segmentation Mode

Break an image into shards and paint each with a different palette.

• Organic segmenting – Based on color similarity, for soft regional forms.
• Brightness slicing – Split your image by light/dark to get duotone or tritone effects.
• Geometry options – Radial bursts, grids, stripes, crystals, edge-aware triangulation, and a “total chaos” button when you need it.
• Palette roulette – Hit shuffle and see what happens. Seriously, this is half the fun.

Great for: album art, visual experiments, glitched collages, Bucket Bender base imagery!

🎛 Bonus Tools

• Gradient builder – Make your own palette from scratch, or let it generate one based on color theory (analogous, monochromatic, complementary, etc.).
• Palette library – Save and reuse your favorite finds, all stored in-browser.
• Clean exports – Everything exports clean and crisp: PNGs for static images, zipped frame sequences for animations.

🛠 Credits & Core Tech

Hue Bandit is built around the fantastic ColorThief library by Lokesh Dhakar (for palette extraction) and d3-delaunay (for triangulation). From there, I layered in a bunch of color tools, loop logic, and creative weirdness to build something uniquely expressive.

👁 Who It’s For

• Artists chasing new workflows
• Designers playing with palette ideas
• Generative art nerds
• Glitch freaks
• People who love color and chaos in equal measure

🌀 Why I Made This

I wanted a tool that felt like alchemy. Something between a utility and a toy. Something that made happy accidents feel inevitable.

Hue Bandit is part of my larger effort to create digital spaces where experimentation feels tactile and intuitive. If it helps you make something strange or beautiful, I’ve done my job.

Now go steal some colors.

—Dawnia / @letsglitchit