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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-amber-50: oklch(95.94% 0.024 57.69);
  --color-amber-100: oklch(92.47% 0.045 55.33);
  --color-amber-200: oklch(84.37% 0.111 63.63);
  --color-amber-300: oklch(76.86% 0.165 70.07);
  --color-amber-400: oklch(68.05% 0.145 70.42);
  --color-amber-500: oklch(59.2% 0.127 69.94);
  --color-amber-600: oklch(49.73% 0.106 70.44);
  --color-amber-700: oklch(40.91% 0.088 69.57);
  --color-amber-800: oklch(32.17% 0.069 70.35);
  --color-amber-900: oklch(22.53% 0.049 70.02);
  --color-amber-950: oklch(17.97% 0.039 70.86);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config