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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-red-50: oklch(96.84% 0.051 135.4);
  --color-red-100: oklch(93.77% 0.114 134.7);
  --color-red-200: oklch(88.8% 0.196 133.63);
  --color-red-300: oklch(83.78% 0.186 133.77);
  --color-red-400: oklch(79.6% 0.176 133.78);
  --color-red-500: oklch(74.5% 0.164 133.69);
  --color-red-600: oklch(62.5% 0.138 133.69);
  --color-red-700: oklch(49.89% 0.11 133.68);
  --color-red-800: oklch(38.09% 0.085 133.86);
  --color-red-900: oklch(25.35% 0.055 133.72);
  --color-red-950: oklch(19.47% 0.044 134.14);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config