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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-purple-50: oklch(95.84% 0.022 303.02);
  --color-purple-100: oklch(92.64% 0.04 301.34);
  --color-purple-200: oklch(84.33% 0.089 302.99);
  --color-purple-300: oklch(77.2% 0.134 302.91);
  --color-purple-400: oklch(70.01% 0.182 303.67);
  --color-purple-500: oklch(62.68% 0.233 303.91);
  --color-purple-600: oklch(54.32% 0.266 304.22);
  --color-purple-700: oklch(44.18% 0.216 304.15);
  --color-purple-800: oklch(34.12% 0.166 304.7);
  --color-purple-900: oklch(24.87% 0.122 304.08);
  --color-purple-950: oklch(18.9% 0.092 303.61);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config