Website Color Theming Made Easy [Look Awesome Demo]

About this episode

Dave Gandy discusses the challenges of color theming in web design and introduces his tool, Look Awesome, to simplify the process.

Look Awesome: Solving Color Once and for All Locking in the color palette for your project is one of those things that seems simple until you're actually doing it. Pick the wrong shade and your text is unreadable. Pick the right shade and it only works in Figma, not in your codebase, not in Tailwind, not anywhere that matters. Dave Gandy — Font Awesome founder, Kickstarter legend, self-described Nantucket color enthusiast — has been quietly building a tool to fix this mess. It's called Look A...

People in this episode

Guest: Dave Gandy

Topics covered

• color theming
• web design
• color palette
• Figma
• Tailwind
• design tools

Keywords

• color palette
• web design
• Look Awesome
• Figma
• Tailwind
• color tools
• design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Font Awesome

Products: Look Awesome

Places: Nantucket

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