# Color swatch

> A chip of a closed palette, role or data-viz color with contrast ink from tokens. Never free CSS. One token contract, every theme. Catalog id color-swatch.

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Last Updated: 2026-11-13

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[Components](https://texuli.com/component-pages/) Color swatch

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`color-swatch`

A chip of a closed palette, role or data-viz color with contrast ink from tokens. Never free CSS.

**One token contract, every theme.** Display components take color, radius, density and state styling from the --tx-* token contract — the same variables the theme strip below overrides — so a theme swap re-colors them without per-component fixes.

## Live examples

### Primary swatch

### Primary swatch

Loading demo…

### Chart series

### Chart series

## In your theme

This page renders in the site theme, `enterprise-neutral`. Every one of the **210** library themes re-colors every component through the `--tx-*` contract. The three below carry real token values from the library, rendered at build — no island, no extra requests.

- Violetlight mode · AA contrast`background`
- `surface`
- `primary`
- `accent`
- `border`

[Open Theme Studio](https://texuli.com/theme-studio/)
- Monochromelight mode · AA contrast`background`
- `surface`
- `primary`
- `accent`
- `border`

[Open Theme Studio](https://texuli.com/theme-studio/)
- Accessible Dark Contrastdark mode · AAA contrast`background`
- `surface`
- `primary`
- `accent`
- `border`

[Open Theme Studio](https://texuli.com/theme-studio/)

## Props

Public props for Color swatch

| Name | Kind | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `color` | `enum` (chart-1, chart-2, chart-3, chart-4, chart-5, chart-6, chart-7, chart-8, primary, secondary, success, warning, destructive, info, neutral) | no | `"primary"` | Closed color reference (chart-1…8 or a role token) |
| `size` | `enum` (sm, md, lg) | no | `"md"` | — |
| `label` | `string` | no | — | Plain-text label, escaped |
| `class` | `string` | no | — | — |
| `children` | `slot` | no | — | Rich label content; replaced by a non-empty label |

## Keyboard

Keyboard behavior for Color swatch

| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| `a` | Pair the fill with a text label; never convey the color by fill alone. |

## Accessibility

- Pair the fill with a text label; never convey the color by fill alone.

## Evidence for color-swatch

Latest committed gates for `color-swatch` (as of 2026-10-23). Static snapshot — not live CI.

### Behavior

n/a no behavior scenario

No dedicated behavior scenario for this catalog id (a styled or display surface, covered by its unit and axe tests).

### Size (gzip)

`texuli/color-swatch · budget 12.0 KiB`

Budget from texuli.budgets.json; re-measure with `pnpm size --filter <entry>`.

### Axe

documented

- `tests/e2e/site-component-pages.spec.ts`
- `docs/quality (a11y-*)`

Site component pages axe gate; package-level a11y docs under docs/quality when present.

### Browsers

- `chromium`
- `webkit`
- `mobile`

Playwright projects: Desktop Chrome, Desktop Safari, Pixel 7. Firefox is a known gap on this host.

## When to use

### Use when

- Show a named token or series color in a legend, key or palette

### Don’t use when

Prefer another component

- A status label (use badge)
- A long-form color name in a sentence (use text)

## Related

- [`badge`](https://texuli.com/component-pages/badge/)
- [`box`](https://texuli.com/component-pages/box/)
- [`text`](https://texuli.com/component-pages/text/)

## For agents

The live preview, prop editor and copyable code run in the browser. The component manifest holds the same props, events, examples and guidance as data. The live parts run in the browser and are not in this Markdown; the operations below do the same work through the read-only MCP server at https://texuli.com/mcp (no sign-in; see https://texuli.com/auth.md).

MCP operations ([reference](https://github.com/DailybotHQ/texuli/blob/main/packages/tools/docs/ops.md#operations)):

- `component.get`: Read a component manifest with `{"id":"color-swatch"}`.
- `example.search`: Find component examples.
- `catalog.search`: Search the component catalog.

Docs:

- [color-swatch component doc (Markdown)](https://texuli.com/llms/components/color-swatch.md)
- [Component docs for agents (llms.txt)](https://texuli.com/llms/llms.txt)
- [Catalog manifest snapshot (JSON)](https://texuli.com/catalog/catalog.json)
- [texuli README](https://github.com/DailybotHQ/texuli/blob/main/packages/texuli/README.md)
- [@texuli/catalog README](https://github.com/DailybotHQ/texuli/blob/main/packages/catalog/README.md)