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Links to CSS colour palettes - Julia Evans:
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/04/css-colour-palettes/
Yeah, CSS's builtin colour palette wasn't so much designed as accreted, & is quite inconsistent. By W3C's own admission.
This is a realm Tailwind could trivially improve upon! Best to avoid using the builtin colour names.
At least CSS vars now give us a way to declare better ones.
O.K., I'll be clear: I recommend against using Tailwind.
Its little more than an illegible alternate syntax for the longstanding browser-builtin `style` attribute!
Which they pretend doesn't exist, whilst others (like me) who value CSS discourages its use.
I understand how Tailwind came about, but that was misunderstandings upon misunderstandings. The grain of truth behind it no longer holds.
If you want decent colour palettes check out the Julia Evans link I shared.
@alcinnz Please don't encourage Tailwind 😔
@slightlyoff Hey, the link I shared prompting these thoughts was recommending for this relative strength!
You might want to check out Stellar CSS from the devs of the incredible Datastar framework. It's still in alpha, but is aimed at being a tailwind killer and is just a work of genius.
They demo it here (worth watching the whole video, and the rest of their stuff though). https://youtu.be/igELI3octGc?t=2620
Auto-creation of colour palettes is just one of many things it allows for.
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