Softworn Alley color palette — #EDE1D6 · #D55977 · #BE1E11 · #514800 · #1E0004

Built around Brick, softened by Poppy — the whole palette hums with nature and growth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#EDE1D6): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Poppy (#D55977): A luminous, balanced red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Brick (#BE1E11): A full-bodied, vivid orange — the color of autumn markets.
• Deep Olive (#514800): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Ink (#1E0004): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Warmth, Comfort, Energy, Balance. Tagged retro, warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn 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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