version: "1.0.0" name: generate-color-palette description: Generate a 9-step primitive color scale plus semantic aliases from brand colors and create them as Figma variables with figma-mcp-rust. Use when the user asks for a color palette, color system, neutral scale, or light/dark color tokens from a brand color.

Generate Color Palette

Given one or more brand colors, generate a full design-system color palette with a primitive scale and semantic aliases, then create them as Figma variables.

Input

Ask the user for:

• Primary brand color (hex), required
• Secondary/accent color (hex), optional
• Whether to include neutral/gray scale, default yes
• Whether to generate dark mode, default yes

Color Scale Algorithm

For each brand color, generate a 9-step scale (50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900) by varying lightness in HSL space:

• 50: lightest tint (~95% lightness)
• 100: ~90% lightness
• 200: ~80% lightness
• 300: ~70% lightness
• 400: ~60% lightness
• 500: base color (the input hex)
• 600: ~45% lightness
• 700: ~35% lightness
• 800: ~25% lightness
• 900: darkest shade (~15% lightness)

For neutrals: use the primary hue but desaturate to 5-10% saturation.

Show the full color table to the user for review before creating anything.

Semantic Aliases

After the primitive scale, create semantic tokens that reference primitives:

Light mode:

• Color/Background/Default: Neutral/50
• Color/Background/Subtle: Neutral/100
• Color/Text/Default: Neutral/900
• Color/Text/Subtle: Neutral/600
• Color/Text/Disabled: Neutral/400
• Color/Primary/Default: Primary/500
• Color/Primary/Hover: Primary/600
• Color/Primary/Active: Primary/700
• Color/Primary/Subtle: Primary/100
• Color/Border/Default: Neutral/200
• Color/Border/Focus: Primary/500

Dark mode (add a "Dark" mode to the same collection):

• Color/Background/Default: Neutral/900
• Color/Background/Subtle: Neutral/800
• Color/Text/Default: Neutral/50
• Color/Text/Subtle: Neutral/300
• Color/Primary/Default: Primary/400
• (etc.)

Creation Steps

1. create_variable_collection(name="Primitives", modeName="Value")
2. For each color in the scale: create_variable(type="COLOR", name="Primary/500", collectionId=...)

then set_variable_value(variableId, modeId, value="#hexcolor")

1. Repeat for secondary and neutrals.
2. create_variable_collection(name="Semantic Colors", modeName="Light")
3. add_variable_mode(collectionId, modeName="Dark") if dark mode is requested
4. For each semantic alias: create_variable + set_variable_value for Light mode, then Dark mode.

Rules

• Always show the color table preview before executing creation.
• Create Primitives collection first, Semantic collection second.
• Use only hex values for variable colors.
• Semantic variable values reference other variables conceptually; set the actual resolved hex value

since variable aliasing (variable-to-variable binding) is not yet supported via MCP.