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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-brand-50: oklch(97.49% 0.013 35.83);
  --color-brand-100: oklch(94.3% 0.03 38.59);
  --color-brand-200: oklch(89.38% 0.058 40.86);
  --color-brand-300: oklch(83.57% 0.096 42.96);
  --color-brand-400: oklch(78.81% 0.133 47.41);
  --color-brand-500: oklch(73.49% 0.185 53.83);
  --color-brand-600: oklch(61.72% 0.155 54.02);
  --color-brand-700: oklch(49.19% 0.124 53.65);
  --color-brand-800: oklch(37.83% 0.095 54.19);
  --color-brand-900: oklch(25.5% 0.065 52.98);
  --color-brand-950: oklch(20.37% 0.051 54.04);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config