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Lightness Distribution 0-100

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Hue Shift

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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-lime-50: oklch(98.98% 0.015 132.34);
  --color-lime-100: oklch(97.07% 0.048 132.92);
  --color-lime-200: oklch(93.79% 0.105 132.44);
  --color-lime-300: oklch(91.78% 0.151 131.99);
  --color-lime-400: oklch(89.23% 0.165 132.06);
  --color-lime-500: oklch(86.75% 0.16 131.82);
  --color-lime-600: oklch(72.13% 0.133 131.68);
  --color-lime-700: oklch(57.64% 0.105 131.66);
  --color-lime-800: oklch(42.43% 0.078 131.99);
  --color-lime-900: oklch(27.96% 0.051 132.13);
  --color-lime-950: oklch(21.08% 0.038 131.69);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config