Quiet Drift color palette — #FFE8EA · #C11637 · #88020E · #4C0400 · #170300

A conversation between Ruby and Oxblood, 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.
• Ruby (#C11637): A full-bodied, vivid red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Oxblood (#88020E): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Espresso (#4C0400): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Ink (#170300): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of autumn markets.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Quiet Drift 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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