Color Advisory

Color Advisory reveals the invisible energy cost of the colors in your designs. On modern OLED and AMOLED screens, brighter pixels consume significantly more power than darker ones — meaning every color choice has a small but real environmental impact. Multiplied across millions of users and billions of screens, those choices add up.

Select any frame, page, or set of layers, and Color Advisory analyzes your palette to estimate its energy consumption. You'll get a total footprint, a per-color breakdown, and suggested alternatives that preserve your design intent while lowering the energy load. It's a quiet nudge toward more intentional, sustainable visual design — without compromising on craft.

Built for designers, design systems teams, and brand designers who want their work to look great and tread lightly. The plugin is free and open source, and is accompanied by the full master's thesis behind the methodology, so you can explore the research, fork the code, or contribute back.