Tempered Alley color palette — #EFE2D8 · #A25C33 · #37312C · #2B1B0E · #110C04

Ochre and Onyx set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Parchment (#EFE2D8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Ochre (#A25C33): A full-bodied, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Espresso (#37312C): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Onyx (#2B1B0E): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Ink (#110C04): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered 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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