Color tool

Why

shadcn uses tailwnd with css variables like this

  :root {
    --background: 0 0% 100%;
    --foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --muted: 210 40% 96.1%;
    --muted-foreground: 215.4 16.3% 46.9%;
 
    --popover: 0 0% 100%;
    --popover-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --card: 0 0% 100%;
    --card-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --border: 214.3 31.8% 91.4%;
    --input: 214.3 31.8% 91.4%;
 
    --primary: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
    --primary-foreground: 210 40% 98%;
 
    --secondary: 210 40% 96.1%;
    --secondary-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --accent: 210 40% 96.1%;
    --accent-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --destructive: 0 100% 50%;
    --destructive-foreground: 210 40% 98%;
 
    --ring: 215 20.2% 65.1%;
 
    --radius: 0.5rem;
  }

but this get’s no color preview in editors meaning if you want to customize using an external design tool is necessary , and depnding on which one you might wind up doing them one by one for every variables and repeat the process for dark variants.

so i made a color tool to help in this process.

paste in your existing variables (just the string)

    --background: 0 0% 100%;
    --foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --muted: 210 40% 96.1%;
    --muted-foreground: 215.4 16.3% 46.9%;
 
    --popover: 0 0% 100%;
    --popover-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --card: 0 0% 100%;
    --card-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --border: 214.3 31.8% 91.4%;
    --input: 214.3 31.8% 91.4%;
 
    --primary: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
    --primary-foreground: 210 40% 98%;
 
    --secondary: 210 40% 96.1%;
    --secondary-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --accent: 210 40% 96.1%;
    --accent-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
 
    --destructive: 0 100% 50%;
    --destructive-foreground: 210 40% 98%;
 
    --ring: 215 20.2% 65.1%;
 
    --radius: 0.5rem;

tips on usage:

• toggle modes too to get the dark variants
• persists your variables loaclly in case you need to alter them later
• has a few components to observe how the new variables change them
• for variables with -foreground it will try and estimate a readable color based on what you pick for the main varaible