Chalky Rust color palette — #FFF2EE · #FFAA8D · #C64A1D · #680D00 · #070100

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

The five colors

• Ivory (#FFF2EE): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Melon (#FFAA8D): A luminous, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Terracotta (#C64A1D): A full-bodied, vivid orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Oxblood (#680D00): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Ink (#070100): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of toasted spice.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Chalky Rust 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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