Export Color Palettes to Tailwind Config

Tailwind thrives when backed by clear, semantic color families. This exporter converts your normalized palettes into a tailwind.config.ts extension that teams can drop straight into their projects. We recommend structuring families like brand, accent, and muted with light-to-dark numeric steps or HSL-based CSS variables. This page contains a detailed, crawlable explanation for SEO, while the interactive generator runs on the client to keep the bundle efficient.

If you have not normalized your palette yet, start with the Color Palette Importer. Validate contrast with theUI Element Color Auditor and Contrast Checker. When your tokens are ready, return here to produce a Tailwind config and variable scaffold.

HSL variables and why they help

By storing colors as HSL variables—--brand-h, --brand-s, --brand-l—you can adjust saturation and lightness in themes and states without redefining RGB or HEX. In Tailwind, reference variables via hsl(var(--brand-h) var(--brand-s) var(--brand-l)), enabling consistent transformations between default, hover, active, and disabled.

Try it: generate Tailwind config

Paste a JSON palette or token set and preview the resulting colors and utilities. You can copy the full tailwind.config.ts snippet, along with a :root token scaffold for your CSS. The component below is client-only for responsiveness and clipboard support.

Generate Tailwind config

Palette or token JSON

Namespace (optional)

tailwind.config.ts

import type { Config } from "tailwindcss"

export default {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        "50": "#EFF6FF",
        "100": "#DBEAFE",
        "200": "#BFDBFE",
        "300": "#93C5FD",
        "400": "#60A5FA",
        "500": "#3B82F6",
        "600": "#2563EB",
        "700": "#1D4ED8",
        "800": "#1E40AF",
        "900": "#1E3A8A"
      }
    }
  }
} satisfies Config

CSS variables scaffold

:root {
  --brand-50: #EFF6FF;
  --brand-100: #DBEAFE;
  --brand-200: #BFDBFE;
  --brand-300: #93C5FD;
  --brand-400: #60A5FA;
  --brand-500: #3B82F6;
  --brand-600: #2563EB;
  --brand-700: #1D4ED8;
  --brand-800: #1E40AF;
  --brand-900: #1E3A8A;
}

Next steps

After exporting, test your utilities inside the Theme Preview Sandbox and ensure typography and chart palettes remain accessible via the Accessible Font Size Checker andAccessible Chart Color Palette Generator.