Soft Mustard Alley color palette — #FFF1F5 · #ECAF1F · #B16C00 · #7C3600 · #1E1800

A conversation between Saffron and Ochre, giving this palette its sense of optimism and balance.

The five colors

• Ivory (#FFF1F5): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Saffron (#ECAF1F): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of old brass.
• Ochre (#B16C00): A full-bodied, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Rust (#7C3600): A full-bodied, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Ink (#1E1800): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.

Feels like: Optimism, Balance, Grounding. Tagged earthy, warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Soft Mustard Alley 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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