Shade Library

Eight thousand ramps, and 8% of them even.

A shade scale is not a palette. It is one colour taken through lightness so that some steps are surfaces and others are text on them — and that job has three requirements. All 8,192 here run one way, and all can carry text. Only 8.2% have genuinely even steps, and that is the one worth filtering on.

Collection 8,192 10 methods Measured in OKLab Read the API guide →

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Filter by method, hue, chroma or lightness — or by evenness, which is the one that separates them. A ramp whose largest step is three times its average feels arbitrary in use, and a row of swatches will not show you that.

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Click any shade card in the Library tab to inspect its tokens, contrast, OKLCH-style ramp behavior and export-ready variables.