# Smarter Website Generation in Repaint

Repaint can follow more nuanced design direction when generating and redesigning websites.

Ben Shumaker · Apr 27, 2026

Today, we released a major update to how Repaint generates websites. It can follow more specific instructions, and it's more flexible when redesigning sites.

**Major improvements:**

- It can rebuild a website in its original style.
- It's better at using other sites as references.
- It can generate custom styles, outside the premade gallery.
- It uses your brand colors, fonts, and images more consistently.
- It imports large websites gradually, so your usage isn't spent all at once.

Repaint was originally built to fully redesign sites in a new style. But many people wanted to do something more specific: _clone this site, keep that section, use this reference, match my brand,_ _make something custom..._

We realized redesigning a website is rarely all-or-nothing. Sometimes you want to preserve the original site, sometimes you want a full redesign, and often you want something in between. With this update, Repaint is much better at handling all of it.

You can try the new system live in [Repaint](/content/site-root.html) today.