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LuLi
50
#EBF3FE
100
#D8E6FD
200
#B1CEFB
300
#8AB5FA
400
#639CF8
500
#3B82F6
600
#0B60EA
700
#0848B0
800
#053075
900
#03183B

Lightness/Luminance Distribution 0-100

100 (White)
0 (Black)
-
Lightness
Hue
+

Hue Shift

-
Lightness
Saturation
+

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, this is swatch 500.

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 50-900 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

Paste this into your tailwind.config.js

{
  "colors": {
    "blue": {
      50: "#EBF3FE",
      100: "#D8E6FD",
      200: "#B1CEFB",
      300: "#8AB5FA",
      400: "#639CF8",
      500: "#3B82F6",
      600: "#0B60EA",
      700: "#0848B0",
      800: "#053075",
      900: "#03183B"
    }
  }
}