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Lightness Distribution 0-100

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0 (Black)
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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-amber-50: oklch(99.17% 0.009 84.52);
  --color-amber-100: oklch(98.35% 0.017 84.56);
  --color-amber-200: oklch(95.71% 0.043 83.21);
  --color-amber-300: oklch(94.06% 0.064 85.39);
  --color-amber-400: oklch(92.23% 0.086 85.98);
  --color-amber-500: oklch(90.05% 0.121 88.44);
  --color-amber-600: oklch(75.13% 0.154 92.2);
  --color-amber-700: oklch(59.45% 0.122 91.62);
  --color-amber-800: oklch(43.91% 0.09 92.13);
  --color-amber-900: oklch(29.42% 0.06 92.32);
  --color-amber-950: oklch(21.69% 0.044 92.78);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config