Tailwind

All three kits are styled with Tailwind, and all three put the brand in the admin rather than the stylesheet. The compiled CSS ships in the repository, so a new site needs no Node build to look right. Colours, fonts and corner radius are CSS variables written into the page from the admin's settings, which is why recolouring a site is a form, not a rebuild.

Local Lab (Tailwind 3) maps its colour names to those variables and offers 32 Google Fonts from a dropdown. Launch Lab (Tailwind 3) goes further: four preset looks over five choices (home layout, listing layout, hero, typeface, shape), importable brand kits with a contrast check, and a favicon and share image drawn from the brand mark. Job Lab (Tailwind 4) keeps its tokens in CSS with seven preset themes, a custom theme, and light, dark or system mode chosen by the admin.

Worth knowing#

• You only need Node if you add new utility classes to a template. Then you rebuild the CSS file once and commit it.

• Launch Lab's brand page grades the contrast of your colours against WCAG, so a pale accent on white gets flagged before a visitor sees it.