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Tailwind CSS
Beginner

Text Colors

Learn how to apply colors to text in Tailwind.

Tailwind comes with a beautiful default color palette.

To color text, use the text-{color}-{shade} format.

Color Shades

Colors range from 50 (lightest) to 950 (darkest).

<p class="text-blue-500">Normal Blue</p>
<p class="text-blue-200">Light Blue</p>
<p class="text-blue-800">Dark Blue</p>

Special Colors

  • text-black
  • text-white
  • text-transparent

Exercise

Change the text color of the heading in the playground to text-purple-600.

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