The article shares the author's journey of developing a custom color system for a product’s design, emphasizing the challenge of integrating existing colors with Tailwind. While many tutorials exist for automated color generation, few provide a manual approach. The author details the process, consisting of selecting a color palette, creating color scales, and ultimately translating those into usable styles and variables tailored for development. This experience aims to guide others facing similar challenges, distilling their final workflow to prevent common pitfalls.
I found a lot of tutorials on generating color styles but almost nothing that walks you through how to do it from scratch manually.
After a few failed attempts and creating far too many tiny color swatches, I thought I'd share my not-so-terrible final workflow.
I needed to customize things by hand and expand my scales to fit the existing colors into Tailwind for the product's design system.
My final workflow includes picking a color palette, turning it into color scales, and converting those into styles and variables.
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