Random thoughts on color picker and tailwind

[StrangeTech]

@Wolfgang

normally I generate my color shades from a specific color. I paste my hex code and assume that the pasted color is my „main“ color, which is for me the -500 shade. Cwicly seems to generate the shades based on the lightness of the color, which is definitely not wrong and a cool approach. But when working with brand colors I want my 500 shade to be exactly the color of the brand/company and to have the option to switch to lighter and darker versions of that color.
This is probably just a personal preference as there is nowhere said that the -500 color has to be the exact „main“ color. But I find it as it is working now a bit randomly.

Agreed. After using the new colour picker palette, we have been thinking the same thing:

Allow manual override of individual Colour picker palette shades

The new colour picker is certainly full featured and a massive improvement. Currently when you generate a palette, the values for the shades are automatically created, which is a great feature. The Hue and Saturation values allow some dynamic customisation of the generated values which also works well. In many designs a more customised approach has been taken by the designer which needs to be recreated in Cwicly. It will be great to be able to override each individual shade of the palette to h…