Design & Creative · By JR Brugger (Design Workflow)

Color System

Build complete color palettes with accessible shades and dark/light mode variants.

What it is

Creates professional color systems for your brand or product with full tonal scales, semantic colors (success, warning, error), and accessibility-compliant contrast ratios. Perfect for teams building design systems, pitch decks, or brand guidelines without needing design software expertise. Gets you from brand colors to a complete, usable palette in minutes.

What it does

  • Generates full tonal scales (light to dark) for your brand colors
  • Creates semantic color sets for success, warning, error, and info states
  • Tests all color combinations for accessibility compliance (WCAG AA/AAA)
  • Builds matching dark mode and light mode palettes
  • Provides usage guidance for each color in your system

Use it when

  • You're building a brand identity and need a complete color palette
  • You need to ensure your design meets accessibility standards
  • You're creating a pitch deck or marketing site and want professional color choices
  • You need dark mode colors that match your existing brand

Add this skill to your AI

Copy the source URL and ask your AI to add it. Most coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf — will fetch and install it for you.

Try this prompt:

Add this skill to my project: https://github.com/jrbrugger/design-workflow/tree/main/designer-skills-main/ui-design/skills/color-system
Made byJR Brugger (Design Workflow)
CategoryDesign & Creative