How to Draft a Tailwind Theme Config from a Brand Brief
Theme configs invent Inter and random hex. Lock Tailwind version. Colors only from the brief.
The matching generator is the Tailwind Theme Config from a Brand Brief (No Trademarked Marks) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).
Lock Tailwind version first
Draft a Tailwind theme config (colors, fonts, spacing) from a brand brief. Never invent trademarked marks or hex values not given. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Brand brief (colors, fonts, spacing notes): [Brief]
Tailwind version I lock: [TWVer]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent: [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Map colors only from provided hex
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Honesty ledger: Brief nouns, TWVer, Lang. Forbidden: invent hex, invent trademarks.
- Version lock: TWVer.
- colors: only hex/names in Brief. Missing: COLOR UNKNOWN.
- fontFamily: only fonts in Brief. Missing: FONT UNKNOWN. Do not invent Google Fonts URLs.
- spacing/radius: only values in Brief or NOT IN INPUTS.
- theme.extend JSON sketch with unknowns labeled.
- Refuse: inventing Inter/Roboto if not in Brief, inventing brand logos, inventing competitor palettes.
- Compliance pass: Banned and Never. Format as Format.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Fonts only if named in the brief
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- Tailwind theme from Brief only. Not Figma variables.
- Never invent hex or trademarked marks.
- Lock TWVer.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Refuse trademarked marks and invented palettes
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (tailwind theme config brand brief, no trademarked marks tailwind, tailwind colors fonts spacing) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.