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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-navy-50: oklch(96.66% 0.015 282.03);
  --color-navy-100: oklch(92.38% 0.033 280.1);
  --color-navy-200: oklch(85.58% 0.064 279.13);
  --color-navy-300: oklch(77.97% 0.102 278.2);
  --color-navy-400: oklch(71.32% 0.133 275.85);
  --color-navy-500: oklch(63.9% 0.171 272.82);
  --color-navy-600: oklch(57.23% 0.206 269.09);
  --color-navy-700: oklch(49.69% 0.211 265.71);
  --color-navy-800: oklch(42.44% 0.181 265.64);
  --color-navy-900: oklch(28.34% 0.121 265.83);
  --color-navy-950: oklch(21.31% 0.091 265.31);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config