Pale Quarry color palette — #FFE8EA · #C95868 · #810025 · #3E0013 · #1B0005

A conversation between Oxblood and Poppy, giving this palette its sense of warmth and comfort.

The five colors

• Rose Water (#FFE8EA): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Poppy (#C95868): A luminous, balanced red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Oxblood (#810025): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Onyx (#3E0013): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Ink (#1B0005): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.

Feels like: Warmth, Comfort, Balance. Tagged monochrome, warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Pale Quarry into a complete token system: semantic roles from primary to success, an 11-stop OKLCH scale per role, a WCAG AA/AAA and APCA contrast matrix, an auto-derived dark mode and 11 export formats including CSS custom properties, Tailwind, Figma Variables and shadcn/ui.

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