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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-zinc-50: oklch(96.44% 0.001 287.3);
  --color-zinc-100: oklch(92.25% 0.003 286.78);
  --color-zinc-200: oklch(85.26% 0.005 286.48);
  --color-zinc-300: oklch(77.75% 0.006 286.44);
  --color-zinc-400: oklch(69.82% 0.01 286.22);
  --color-zinc-500: oklch(62.93% 0.012 286.12);
  --color-zinc-600: oklch(55.17% 0.014 285.99);
  --color-zinc-700: oklch(44.95% 0.016 285.77);
  --color-zinc-800: oklch(34.38% 0.014 285.68);
  --color-zinc-900: oklch(24.14% 0.009 285.7);
  --color-zinc-950: oklch(18.86% 0.008 285.63);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config