i've been working on moving away from Tailwind, and one thing I'm realizing I appreciated about Tailwind is having a basic color palette (blues, grays, greens, indigos, pinks, purples, reds, yellows) I could use while prototyping

[dominik@nona.social]

@sarajw @b0rk oooh! TIL, I like this a lot! Thanks!

[loupbrun@mastodon.quebec]

@b0rk I would use a tailwind palette generator like https://github.com/fullsolid/tailwindshades (installable offline!), extract the config for each color palette, and make a CSS variable list out of it.

[b0rk@social.jvns.ca]

@watters thanks, this is great

[trey@indieweb.social]

@b0rk https://open-props.style/#colors is pretty cool

[zygous@toot.community]

@b0rk I see others have already mentioned calc(), but I enjoyed this recent blog post by @cferdinandi: https://gomakethings.com/generative-colors-with-css/

[ikesau@micro.ikesau.co]

@b0rk @sarajw and if you don't mind a slightly hard-to-reason-about colour space, using oklab or oklch will get you even nicer derivatives

[nihilistic_capybara@layer8.space]

@b0rk if you find out please le me know too.

Boosting for visibility

[marien@tutut.delire.party]

@b0rk I use Radix UI colors a lot, it makes creating light/dark modes very easy https://www.radix-ui.com/colors/docs/palette-composition/scales

[sarajw@front-end.social]

@ikesau agreed!

@b0rk yes it's very cool what you can do now - CSS is ever more powerful, I don't like using tailwind because I find it limiting.

[nelson@tech.lgbt]

@b0rk your question is making me nostalgic for the X11 rgb.txt which later became the basis of HTML and then CSS colors. Dates to 1985! It's not a great palette, it pre-dates all the work on perceptual color palettes.

[thejikz@infosec.exchange]

@b0rk I was searching for a decent scheme in my CSS learning and did stumble across this at least as a base reference, I enjoy the off namings and think it could be easily converted to CSS

XCXD color scheme Link:
https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/

[trey@indieweb.social]

@b0rk Oh, and this one looks interesting as well https://colorpalette.pro

I'm having a lot of fun seeing all the things folks are linking to in this thread!

[tendstofortytwo@social.treehouse.systems]

@b0rk I enjoy https://coolors.co because it lets me dial a color combination in for a particular use case while making it easy to make it look good, but there's also other premade palettes like https://materialui.co/colors and https://flatuicolors.com that are great in a pinch. they have different vibes though I think. the flat ui palettes are more muted, the material ones are more vibrant, tailwind is sorta a nice middle ground

[trademark@fosstodon.org]

@b0rk I like https://clrs.cc/ possibly because the URL is so easy to remember

[njonsson@hachyderm.io]

@b0rk, mind saying where you’re going after Tailwind?

[b0rk@social.jvns.ca]

@njonsson just writing CSS myself!

[bomberstudios@mastodon.online]

@gastonrampersad @b0rk +1 for uchū, the colors are very nice and the whole thing is a pleasure to use

[ttt@mastodon.social]

@b0rk https://stephango.com/flexoki

[willywongi@indieweb.social]

@b0rk I HAVE to mention WebAwesome. https://webawesome.com/docs/color-palettes

[gekitsu@toot.cat]

@b0rk not strictly what you asked for, but i have been at a similar point multiple times – wondering whether it wouldn’t be cool to build such a palette myself, for my own use.

straddling the genericity to whip something up quickly, with the speed you get from reduced choice, and the sum of these somethings still carrying an overall fingerprint of my ideas and predilections when it comes to colour.

after all, if there’s a need to not have that, i can always fine tune it away later. and if there’s no need to, there’s no harm in it looking ‘mine’.