--- title: Tailwind Alchemist: find all tailwind colors in your... description: Tailwind Alchemist is a CLI tool that scans codebases to find hardcoded Tailwind color names, helping developers migrate to semantic color systems like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-alchemist-find-all-tailwind-colors-in-your-codebase-keiehgcnj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tailwind Alchemist: find all tailwind colors in your codebase | daily.dev og:description: Tailwind Alchemist is a CLI tool that scans codebases to find hardcoded Tailwind color names, helping developers migrate to semantic color systems like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tailwind-alchemist-find-all-tailwind-colors-in-your-codebase-keiehgcnj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KEiEHgcnj.png og:image:alt: Tailwind Alchemist: find all tailwind colors in your codebase og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tailwind Alchemist: find all tailwind colors in your codebase **[Einenlum - Coding amongst alpacas and pinball machines](https://daily.dev/sources/einenlum)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tailwind Alchemist is a CLI tool that scans codebases to find hardcoded Tailwind color names, helping developers migrate to semantic color systems like DaisyUI. The tool, built in TypeScript, supports Tailwind v4 and offers multiple verbosity levels to identify colors at the file, line, and class utility level. It addresses the challenge of refactoring projects that start with templates containing hardcoded colors when transitioning to theme-based design systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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