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Color Shade Generator
Generate light and dark shades of any color for design systems
What is Color Shade Generator?
Generate a complete range of light to dark shades from any base color. Enter a color and get 10+ carefully calculated shades from near-white to near-black, similar to Tailwind CSS color scales. Perfect for building design systems, creating accessible color palettes, and finding the right shade for hover states, backgrounds, and borders. Copy individual shades as HEX, RGB, or HSL values.
How to Use Color Shade Generator
- 1Enter a base color using the color picker or type a HEX code
- 2View the generated shade scale from lightest (50) to darkest (950)
- 3Click any shade to copy its HEX value
- 4Copy the entire palette as CSS variables or Tailwind config
Frequently Asked Questions
Shades are darker versions of a color (mixed with black), while tints are lighter versions (mixed with white). Together, they create a range of values from light to dark that maintain the same hue. This range is essential for creating depth, hierarchy, and contrast in UI design.
The Color Palette Generator creates harmonious multi-color palettes (complementary, analogous, etc.). The Color Shade Generator focuses on a single color and produces a complete range of light-to-dark variations of that specific color, similar to Tailwind's 50-950 color scales.
Yes. The generated shade scale maps directly to Tailwind's color scale format (50, 100, 200... 900, 950). You can copy the values and use them as custom colors in your tailwind.config.js file.
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