The eleven-shade color scale from Tailwind CSS is one of those ideas I keep stealing. You know the one: 50 through 950 gives you enough stops for backgrounds, borders, hover states, text, everything. I use it even when I’m not using Tailwind. But I almost never use the defaults (your site/app ends up looking like every other site built by LLMs). The fix is not complicated. You don’t need a color theory degree or a five-color palette generator (you know the ones 🥹). You only need two or...