Tempered Thicket color palette — #F7E9E1 · #AD872E · #671900 · #270500 · #040100

A conversation between Oxblood and Mustard, giving this palette its sense of optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Cream (#F7E9E1): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Mustard (#AD872E): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of old brass.
• Oxblood (#671900): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Ink (#270500): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Black (#040100): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Optimism, Sophistication. Tagged luxury, dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Thicket 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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