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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-plum-50: oklch(96.01% 0.029 320.65);
  --color-plum-100: oklch(92% 0.057 319.69);
  --color-plum-200: oklch(83.4% 0.127 320.75);
  --color-plum-300: oklch(75.56% 0.195 321.8);
  --color-plum-400: oklch(68.17% 0.268 322.66);
  --color-plum-500: oklch(59.15% 0.257 322.91);
  --color-plum-600: oklch(50.26% 0.219 322.75);
  --color-plum-700: oklch(41.17% 0.179 322.94);
  --color-plum-800: oklch(32.11% 0.14 322.83);
  --color-plum-900: oklch(23.77% 0.104 322.99);
  --color-plum-950: oklch(18.79% 0.082 322.39);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config