Styling

Four ways to put CSS on a node:

• style prop: inline CSSProperties on one node. Overrides the tag default.
• tw prop: Tailwind classes on one node.
• <style> tags: CSS that travels inside the JSX.
• stylesheets option: full stylesheets matched against className and id.

Stylesheets

Pass real CSS through stylesheets and match it by className or id.

import { render } from "takumi-js";

const image = await render(<div className="card">Hello</div>, {
  width: 1200,
  height: 630,
  stylesheets: [`.card { display: flex; padding: 48px; background: #0f172a; color: white; }`],
});

The engine handles:

A <style> tag feeds the same engine and gets extracted from the JSX automatically.

<div className="card">
  <style>{`.card { display: flex; padding: 48px; }`}</style>
  Hello
</div>

CSS variables

The cssVariables option declares CSS custom properties without writing CSS. Each entry becomes one :root declaration. The leading -- is optional.

import { render } from "takumi-js";

const image = await render(<div className="card">Hello</div>, {
  width: 1200,
  height: 630,
  stylesheets: [`.card { color: var(--brand) }`],
  cssVariables: { "--brand": "#5b21b6" },
});

Every var() reads them, in stylesheets, in <style> tags, and in tw.

The generated rule comes after every stylesheet, so a media query at equal specificity still loses. Override an entry with a more specific selector, such as :root:root.

Values containing ;, {, }, /* or !important are dropped. They could escape the generated rule.

A nested palette flattens with the cssVariables helper. Keys join with - into one variable name.

import { cssVariables } from "takumi-js/helpers";

const flat = cssVariables({ color: { brand: { 500: "#5b21b6" } } });
// { "--color-brand-500": "#5b21b6" }

Tailwind

Bring your stylesheet

Compile Tailwind with your bundler. Pass the generated CSS through stylesheets. With Vite, import it using ?inline.

import { ImageResponse } from "takumi-js/response";
import stylesheet from "~/styles/global.css?inline";

export function GET() {
  return new ImageResponse(
    <div className="bg-background text-foreground flex justify-center items-center w-full h-full text-4xl">
      Hello Tailwind!
    </div>,
    {
      width: 1200,
      height: 630,
      stylesheets: [stylesheet],
    },
  );
}

import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite";

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [tailwindcss()],
});

Native parser

The tw prop runs a built-in parser with no build step. It won't cover every Tailwind feature.

• Arbitrary values work.
• See the parser mapping for every supported class.

To reset those defaults, pass Preflight through stylesheets, wrapped in a layer so it stays below your utilities:

import preflight from "tailwindcss/preflight.css?inline";

const image = await render(node, {
  stylesheets: [`@layer base { ${preflight} }`],
});

Unlayered stylesheet rules override tw utilities, and rules in a named @layer lose to them. That is Tailwind's own order: utilities are the last declared layer. Prefix a utility with ! to override an unlayered rule.

<div tw="bg-blue-500 p-4 rounded-lg">
  <h1 tw="text-white text-2xl font-bold">Hello Tailwind!</h1>
</div>

Utilities read CSS variables

A utility reads a CSS custom property, the way Tailwind compiles it. bg-red-500 resolves var(--color-red-500), p-4 resolves calc(var(--spacing) * 4). The built-in scale sits behind them as the fallback.

Declare tokens in a :root rule, in a Tailwind @theme block pasted as-is, or pass them as the cssVariables option. @theme reads as the :root rule it compiles to, @keyframes inside it register, and @theme reference emits nothing.

:root {
  --color-brand-500: #5b21b6;
  --spacing-gutter: 2.5rem;
}

<div tw="bg-brand-500 p-gutter" />

Tokens declared in a stylesheet follow the CSS cascade. A media query or a selector can override them. Tokens passed as cssVariables sit after every stylesheet, so overriding one takes a more specific selector.

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --color-brand-500: #a78bfa;
  }
}

The namespace picks which utilities a token reaches:

Some things behave differently from Tailwind here:

• Colours reach gradients and shadows: from-brand-500 and shadow-brand-500 read --color-brand-500 like bg-brand-500 does.
• A gradient needs bg-linear-*, bg-radial or bg-conic. Stops alone paint nothing, as in Tailwind.
• --color-red-500: initial falls back to the built-in red instead of removing bg-red-500.
• A bare rounded keeps its built-in value; rounded-sm and the rest read the variable.
• --spacing needs a unit. A bare number makes p-4 compute pixels here, where a browser rejects the declaration.

tw is a plain prop, so build it dynamically:

import clsx from "clsx";

const isError = true;

<div tw={clsx("p-4 rounded", isError ? "bg-red-100 text-red-700" : "bg-green-100 text-green-700")}>
  {isError ? "Something went wrong" : "Success!"}
</div>;