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LuLi
50
#EBEBFF
100
#D2D2FE
200
#A6A4FE
300
#7E7CFD
400
#524FFD
500
#2522FC
600
#0703E2
700
#0502AB
800
#03026F
900
#020137

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": {
    "brand": {
      50: "#EBEBFF",
      100: "#D2D2FE",
      200: "#A6A4FE",
      300: "#7E7CFD",
      400: "#524FFD",
      500: "#2522FC",
      600: "#0703E2",
      700: "#0502AB",
      800: "#03026F",
      900: "#020137"
    }
  }
}