Gentle Rust color palette — #EBDAD0 · #E0B142 · #BD562D · #72341C · #170600

Terracotta and Gold set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and balance.

The five colors

• Bone (#EBDAD0): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Gold (#E0B142): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Terracotta (#BD562D): A full-bodied, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Rust (#72341C): A full-bodied, balanced orange — the color of autumn markets.
• Ink (#170600): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.

Feels like: Optimism, Balance. Tagged luxury, dark.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Gentle 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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