Erik de Vries

Hey all! 👋 Erik here, the maker of uithemes.app. If you’ve never used shadcn/ui, it’s a popular UI component set for React developers. It gives you beautifully crafted components, but with a very neutral minimal theme. That neutral look is intentional, but it also means your app can look a bit flat unless you customize it. The problem Customizing shadcn/ui is not easy. The theme is controlled...

Hi! I’m Erik, and I’m excited to share the relaunch of UI Colors! It’s been over 3 years since I launched UI Colors as my side project. Since then, it has grown a lot, with new features, refinements, and improvements along the way. In April, I lost my job as a Product Designer. Instead of looking for another job, I decided to go all-in on UI Colors and make it my main focus! Over the past few...

Hi! Although the default Tailwind CSS colors are great, sometimes you need a customized color family. For example when you want to use brand colors or the design you are working on needs less vibrant colors. It is a time-consuming process to create a nice looking color family based on a given hexcode. It took me hours of tweaking in a design tool like Figma to create a custom and nice looking...