Softworn Plum Balcony color palette — #FAE9E5 · #B43049 · #552100 · #4E0015 · #050100

A conversation between Ruby and Espresso, giving this palette its sense of optimism and warmth.

The five colors

• Rose Water (#FAE9E5): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Ruby (#B43049): A full-bodied, vivid red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Espresso (#552100): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Espresso (#4E0015): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Black (#050100): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Plum Balcony 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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