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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-lavender-50: oklch(96.61% 0.016 293.85);
  --color-lavender-100: oklch(92.52% 0.038 293.87);
  --color-lavender-200: oklch(85.07% 0.077 293.9);
  --color-lavender-300: oklch(77.6% 0.119 293.84);
  --color-lavender-400: oklch(70.9% 0.159 293.55);
  --color-lavender-500: oklch(62.49% 0.21 292.8);
  --color-lavender-600: oklch(53.96% 0.261 291.6);
  --color-lavender-700: oklch(44.45% 0.236 291.14);
  --color-lavender-800: oklch(35.24% 0.187 291.3);
  --color-lavender-900: oklch(25.09% 0.132 291.48);
  --color-lavender-950: oklch(18.98% 0.101 290.71);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config