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Last active November 12, 2024 12:19
Expose Tailwind colors as CSS custom properties (variables)

This is a simple Tailwind plugin to expose all of Tailwind's colors, including any custom ones, as custom css properties on the :root element.

There are a couple of main reasons this is helpful:

  • You can reference all of Tailwind's colors—including any custom ones you define—from handwritten CSS code.
  • You can define all of your colors within the Tailwind configuration, and access the final values programmatically, which isn't possible if you did it the other way around: referencing custom CSS variables (defined in CSS code) from your Tailwind config.

See the Tailwind Plugins for more info on plugins.