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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-error-50: oklch(95.79% 0.016 17.55);
  --color-error-100: oklch(90.88% 0.036 17.87);
  --color-error-200: oklch(81.98% 0.079 18.92);
  --color-error-300: oklch(73.95% 0.125 20.51);
  --color-error-400: oklch(65.23% 0.187 23.87);
  --color-error-500: oklch(55.94% 0.19 25.86);
  --color-error-600: oklch(47.56% 0.162 25.87);
  --color-error-700: oklch(39.48% 0.134 25.87);
  --color-error-800: oklch(30.54% 0.103 25.75);
  --color-error-900: oklch(22.53% 0.077 25.92);
  --color-error-950: oklch(18.36% 0.062 25.76);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config