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Saturation Shift

Palette Generator and API for Tailwind CSS

Read the launch blog post for full details on how this works.

Palette Creator

Set the initial Value as a valid hexadecimal colour. By default this is stop 500, but it can be changed to any stop from 50-950.

For colours that have 100% Saturation, make the Palette more interesting by shifting the Hue up or down.

Palettes starting from a Base colour with little Saturation get more interesting by increasing Saturation at the extremes.

Shift the Minimum/Maximum Lightness/Luminance to spread out the rest of the colours to the extremes of white and black. Switch between Lightness and Luminance to produce a different spread of colours at the extremes.

These principles are inspired by the excellent Refactoring UI book by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger. The same book recommends against automated tools, just like this one!

This tool exists to fast-track the creation of new palettes.

Palette API

Any set of Palettes can be fetched via an API. You may find this useful for design tools that need to generate a 50-950 Palette from just a single Hex value.

Currently, the API will only return a Palette using the base hex value, with no options to have HSL tweaks.

Credits

Made by Simeon Griggs

Tailwind CSS Version:
Output color mode:
@theme {
  --color-violet-50: oklch(95.88% 0.02 295.26);
  --color-violet-100: oklch(91.75% 0.041 294.79);
  --color-violet-200: oklch(84.15% 0.082 294.69);
  --color-violet-300: oklch(76.12% 0.127 294.03);
  --color-violet-400: oklch(68.02% 0.174 293.43);
  --color-violet-500: oklch(60.56% 0.219 292.73);
  --color-violet-600: oklch(52.44% 0.265 291.42);
  --color-violet-700: oklch(43.42% 0.228 291.4);
  --color-violet-800: oklch(34.2% 0.18 291.45);
  --color-violet-900: oklch(24% 0.125 291.4);
  --color-violet-950: oklch(18.85% 0.1 291.29);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config