Summary

Julia Evans shares CSS colour palette resources after deciding to move away from Tailwind for new projects. She missed Tailwind's convenient colour palette system and asked on Mastodon for alternatives. The post collects her favourites including uchū, flexoki, and reasonable colours, along with other palettes and generators. It's a practical resource post born from a real workflow need rather than a deep technical dive.

Key Insight

When moving away from CSS frameworks like Tailwind, curated colour palettes remain valuable for developers who aren't confident with colour design.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

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  A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead.

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  I'm not very good with colours so it makes a big difference to me to have a reasonable colour palette that somebody who is better at colour than me has thought about.

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  But I'm also a little tired of those Tailwind colours, so I asked on Mastodon today what other colour palettes were out there.

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  I've always found these types of generators too hard to use but maybe one day I will get better enough at colour that I'm able to use a colour palette generator successfully.

Tone

casual, practical, self-deprecating