Scott Whittaker

Frontend Developer

Day job React | side projects Svelte

Tailwind default colour palette as CSS custom properties

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I am sick of trying to put colours together when writing little tests so I am using the default colour palette from Tailwind CSS as css custom properties as a base from now on.

Tailwind default colours

Gist

:root {
	--black: #22292f;
	--grey-darkest: #3d4852;
	--grey-darker: #606f7b;
	--grey-dark: #8795a1;
	--grey: #b8c2cc;
	--grey-light: #dae1e7;
	--grey-lighter: #f1f5f8;
	--grey-lightest: #f8fafc;
	--white: #ffffff;

	--red-darkest: #3b0d0c;
	--red-darker: #621b18;
	--red-dark: #cc1f1a;
	--red: #e3342f;
	--red-light: #ef5753;
	--red-lighter: #f9acaa;
	--red-lightest: #fcebea;

	--orange-darkest: #462a16;
	--orange-darker: #613b1f;
	--orange-dark: #de751f;
	--orange: #f6993f;
	--orange-light: #faad63;
	--orange-lighter: #fcd9b6;
	--orange-lightest: #fff5eb;

	--yellow-darkest: #453411;
	--yellow-darker: #684f1d;
	--yellow-dark: #f2d024;
	--yellow: #ffed4a;
	--yellow-light: #fff382;
	--yellow-lighter: #fff9c2;
	--yellow-lightest: #fcfbeb;

	--green-darkest: #0f2f21;
	--green-darker: #1a4731;
	--green-dark: #1f9d55;
	--green: #38c172;
	--green-light: #51d88a;
	--green-lighter: #a2f5bf;
	--green-lightest: #e3fcec;

	--teal-darkest: #0d3331;
	--teal-darker: #20504f;
	--teal-dark: #38a89d;
	--teal: #4dc0b5;
	--teal-light: #64d5ca;
	--teal-lighter: #a0f0ed;
	--teal-lightest: #e8fffe;

	--blue-darkest: #12283a;
	--blue-darker: #1c3d5a;
	--blue-dark: #2779bd;
	--blue: #3490dc;
	--blue-light: #6cb2eb;
	--blue-lighter: #bcdefa;
	--blue-lightest: #eff8ff;

	--indigo-darkest: #191e38;
	--indigo-darker: #2f365f;
	--indigo-dark: #5661b3;
	--indigo: #6574cd;
	--indigo-light: #7886d7;
	--indigo-lighter: #b2b7ff;
	--indigo-lightest: #e6e8ff;

	--purple-darkest: #21183c;
	--purple-darker: #382b5f;
	--purple-dark: #794acf;
	--purple: #9561e2;
	--purple-light: #a779e9;
	--purple-lighter: #d6bbfc;
	--purple-lightest: #f3ebff;

	--pink-darkest: #451225;
	--pink-darker: #6f213f;
	--pink-dark: #eb5286;
	--pink: #f66d9b;
	--pink-light: #fa7ea8;
	--pink-lighter: #ffbbca;
	--pink-lightest: #ffebef;
}