Faded Rust Alley color palette — #ECDDD4 · #C04822 · #5A4000 · #661900 · #030100

A conversation between Terracotta and Oxblood, giving this palette its sense of optimism and balance.

The five colors

• Bone (#ECDDD4): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Terracotta (#C04822): A full-bodied, vivid orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Bronze (#5A4000): A deep, shadowed, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Oxblood (#661900): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Black (#030100): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Optimism, Balance. Tagged duotone.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Faded Rust Alley 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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