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Lightness Distribution 0-100

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0 (Black)
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Hue Shift

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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-gold-50: oklch(97.47% 0.019 72.57);
  --color-gold-100: oklch(94.88% 0.039 74.79);
  --color-gold-200: oklch(89.09% 0.098 79.04);
  --color-gold-300: oklch(83.69% 0.164 84.42);
  --color-gold-400: oklch(73.72% 0.145 84.5);
  --color-gold-500: oklch(64.14% 0.126 84.42);
  --color-gold-600: oklch(53.74% 0.105 84.77);
  --color-gold-700: oklch(44.1% 0.086 84.29);
  --color-gold-800: oklch(33.76% 0.066 84.77);
  --color-gold-900: oklch(24.31% 0.048 86.43);
  --color-gold-950: oklch(18.9% 0.036 84.8);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config