Tempered Rust color palette — #F4DDDF · #BF404B · #88010F · #410900 · #1F0500

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

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#F4DDDF): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Brick (#BF404B): A full-bodied, vivid red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Oxblood (#88010F): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Espresso (#410900): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Ink (#1F0500): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered 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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