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Lightness Distribution 0-100

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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-primary-50: oklch(97.28% 0.018 223.53);
  --color-primary-100: oklch(94.48% 0.037 222.38);
  --color-primary-200: oklch(88% 0.088 218.75);
  --color-primary-300: oklch(82.49% 0.142 215.21);
  --color-primary-400: oklch(77.26% 0.136 215.18);
  --color-primary-500: oklch(71.48% 0.126 215.21);
  --color-primary-600: oklch(60.2% 0.106 215.85);
  --color-primary-700: oklch(48.31% 0.085 215.86);
  --color-primary-800: oklch(36.65% 0.064 215.21);
  --color-primary-900: oklch(25.47% 0.045 214.5);
  --color-primary-950: oklch(19.65% 0.035 215.19);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config