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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-blue-50: oklch(96.51% 0.015 273.9);
  --color-blue-100: oklch(92.39% 0.033 272.8);
  --color-blue-200: oklch(84.73% 0.071 271.55);
  --color-blue-300: oklch(77.09% 0.108 268.07);
  --color-blue-400: oklch(70.11% 0.144 265.29);
  --color-blue-500: oklch(62.31% 0.188 259.81);
  --color-blue-600: oklch(53.19% 0.171 258.32);
  --color-blue-700: oklch(42.6% 0.139 258.76);
  --color-blue-800: oklch(33.05% 0.107 258.44);
  --color-blue-900: oklch(23.37% 0.077 258.58);
  --color-blue-950: oklch(18.87% 0.063 258.86);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config