Nearest Color is a MacOS app (Windows coming soon) that improves Find the nearest Tailwind colour in every way.
Find the nearest Tailwind colour will stay online, open source, and free to use.
Nearest Color finds the color on the left. ✅
Find the nearest Tailwind colour finds the color on the right. ❌
#008000
Nearest Color
lime-700
Find Nearest Tailwind colour
green-800
Windows coming soon
New Nearest Color features
Nearest Color keeps the same main feature of Find the nearest Tailwind colour. You enter #fff, it tells you
white.
Nearest Color has several new and very important features.
Nearest Color uses much better color science to find closer matches
Nearest Color finds the closest color in a palette according to how humans actually perceive colors.
Find the nearest Tailwind colour finds the closest color in the Tailwind palette naively using the mathematical distance between colors.
See more examples of the quite amazing difference this change makes.
Nearest Color supports all color formats
Nearest Color: hex, rgb, hsl, hwb, cmyk, lab, oklab, lch, oklch, or a CSS named color
Find the nearest Tailwind colour: only hex
Nearest Color supports more palettes
Nearest Color: Tailwind, Apple HIG, and Bootstrap at launch.
Find the nearest Tailwind colour: only Tailwind
Let me know if there are other palettes you'd like to see.Nearest Color is a paid desktop app
Nearest Color is a paid app for MacOS app (Windows coming soon) – available as a one-time purchase.
Find Nearest Tailwind Colour will stay online, open source, and free to use.
Windows coming soon