Tailwind Zinc
All 11 Zinc shades, 50 to 950 — click any value to copy it as hex, OKLCH, RGB, HSL or class name.
Zinc is a near-neutral gray with only a whisper of warmth — the shadcn/ui default base color. It looks modern and slightly industrial, pairing cleanly with almost any accent hue.
Click any value to copy it. All 11 Zinc shades (50–950) in hex, OKLCH, RGB, HSL and Tailwind class.
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What is Tailwind Zinc?
Tailwind Zinc is one of the 22 default color families in Tailwind CSS, published as 11 shades running from zinc-50 (lightest) to zinc-950 (darkest). Tailwind CSS v4 defines every shade in OKLCH, with a hex fallback for older browsers. Reach them through utility classes such as bg-zinc-500, text-zinc-700 and border-zinc-200 — no config needed.
Where to use Tailwind Zinc
- Default shadcn surfaces:
bg-zinc-50/bg-zinc-950. - Foreground text:
text-zinc-900/text-zinc-50. - Muted UI:
text-zinc-400,border-zinc-800.
Related Tailwind colors
Related tools
- Tailwind Colors — the full palette, all 22 families and 242 shades.
- Shadcn Theme Generator — turn Zinc into light and dark shadcn tokens.
- OKLCH Converter — convert any Zinc hex to OKLCH, RGB or HSL.
- Color Shades Generator — turn your own brand color into an OKLCH tint and shade scale.
