Tempered Rust Studio color palette — #F8EAE5 · #C55F5C · #5C2D00 · #261C18 · #100B0A

Poppy and Cocoa set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Cream (#F8EAE5): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Poppy (#C55F5C): A luminous, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Cocoa (#5C2D00): A deep, shadowed, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Onyx (#261C18): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Ink (#100B0A): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Optimism, Sophistication. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Rust Studio 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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