Shadcn Theme Editor
The shadcn Theme Editor is a must-have developer tool that provides an intuitive visual interface for customizing shadcn/ui color themes without manually editing CSS variables or converting between color formats.
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About Shadcn Theme Editor
Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, this component allows developers and designers to interactively adjust all theme tokens, preview changes in real-time across light and dark modes, and export ready-to-use CSS configurations. The editor features interactive color pickers for all shadcn/ui theme tokens including background, foreground, primary, secondary, accent, destructive, and border colors, live preview showing how components look with the selected theme applied, automatic HSL to CSS variable conversion eliminating manual color format calculations, one-click copying of generated CSS for immediate integration into projects, preset theme templates to jumpstart customization from popular color schemes, and accessibility contrast checking to ensure color combinations meet WCAG standards. The interface organizes theme tokens by their semantic purpose, making it clear which colors affect buttons versus backgrounds versus text, helping developers understand the shadcn/ui theming system while customizing it.
This tool is invaluable for designers creating custom brand themes without CSS expertise, developers building white-label applications requiring multiple tenant-specific themes, teams experimenting with color palettes before committing to final designs, projects needing to match precise brand guidelines with exact color control, and anyone frustrated with manually converting hex colors to the HSL format required by shadcn/ui. The Theme Editor can be installed as a dev dependency via npm or integrated using the Scaflo CLI, bridging the gap between visual design and technical implementation to make theme customization accessible and efficient.
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Free, open source, and ready to ship.
Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start customising. Shadcn Theme Editor is free and open source: its license is in the repository.
- Clone the Shadcn Theme Editor repository from GitHub.
- Run
npm installorpnpm installto install all required packages. - Run
npm run devto start the development server and begin customizing. - Check the repository’s README and license before you ship.
Terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/programming-with-ia/shadcn-theme-editor $ cd shadcn-theme-editor $ npm install $ npm run dev
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Everything you need to know before you ship with Shadcn Theme Editor.
The shadcn Theme Editor is a must-have developer tool that provides an intuitive visual interface for customizing shadcn/ui color themes without manually editing CSS variables or converting between color formats. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.
Shadcn Theme Editor is made by Programming with ia, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Programming with ia has 1 template in the collection, and the author's page lists them.
The listing tags Shadcn Theme Editor with React, Tailwind and Templates & Themes. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.
Yes. The Shadcn Theme Editor page embeds its live demo from shadcnthemeeditor.vercel.app, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.
The Shadcn Theme Editor listing was last updated on October 8, 2025. That date is the listing's, not the repository's: check the repository's commits for recent activity.
Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/programming-with-ia/shadcn-theme-editor), then follow the README. The Shadcn Theme Editor page shows the usual steps and a terminal block with the commands to copy.
Install dependencies with npm install or pnpm install, then run npm run dev. The README in the Shadcn Theme Editor repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.
No. Shadcn Theme Editor is cloned from its own GitHub repository, so shadcn.io isn't involved. Browsing the page and its live demo need no account either; Pro adds the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server.
Follow the deployment notes in the Shadcn Theme Editor README: the right host depends on its framework and any services it needs. The page's categories show what it is built for.
The Shadcn Theme Editor listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/programming-with-ia/shadcn-theme-editor), and ask the author if there isn't one.
That depends on Shadcn Theme Editor's license in its repository, which shadcn.io does not set. Read the LICENSE file before you use it in a client or paid project, and ask the author if it is unclear.
Attribution follows Shadcn Theme Editor's license. Many permissive licenses ask you to keep the copyright notice and license text in your copy; its LICENSE file says exactly what.
No. The Pro license covers shadcn.io's own Pro code, blocks and premium templates. Shadcn Theme Editor is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.
Programming with ia supports Shadcn Theme Editor, through its GitHub repository: read the docs, open an issue or look for discussions. shadcn.io does not maintain it.
Yes. Once you clone it, Shadcn Theme Editor is your own code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. It uses shadcn/ui, so you can also add more components the same way.
Yes. Components are free with a free account and the blocks are in Pro; both are copied into your project with the shadcn CLI. Check that Shadcn Theme Editor uses Tailwind CSS and the shadcn/ui setup (a components.json) before you add them, and pick the base library your project already uses.
Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, and returns each one's repository and live demo, so your editor can set up Shadcn Theme Editor for you. Your files stay on your machine.
The collection has 14 other open source Templates & Themes templates like Shadcn Theme Editor, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/templates-and-themes.
Programming with ia has no other templates in the collection.
Yes. The 14 premium templates (Solaris, Reframe Labs, Spherule and Max and more) are built by shadcn.io and come with every Pro plan, if you want maintained code with a design file.
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