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Lightness Distribution 0-100

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0 (Black)
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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-warn-50: oklch(0.982 0.013 71.33);
  --color-warn-100: oklch(0.957 0.034 74.41);
  --color-warn-200: oklch(0.916 0.076 78.86);
  --color-warn-300: oklch(0.881 0.117 81.38);
  --color-warn-400: oklch(0.838 0.17 85.93);
  --color-warn-500: oklch(0.795 0.162 86.04);
  --color-warn-600: oklch(0.667 0.136 86.12);
  --color-warn-700: oklch(0.537 0.109 85.82);
  --color-warn-800: oklch(0.397 0.081 86.12);
  --color-warn-900: oklch(0.27 0.055 86.63);
  --color-warn-950: oklch(0.207 0.042 86.81);
}

Paste this into the css file with your Tailwind config