Washed Alley color palette — #FAD8D7 · #BB9884 · #7C7645 · #66495C · #513437

A conversation between Walnut and Taupe, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#FAD8D7): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Taupe (#BB9884): A luminous, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Walnut (#7C7645): A full-bodied, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Charcoal Brown (#66495C): A full-bodied, dusty pink — the color of a candy shop window.
• Charcoal (#513437): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of a theater curtain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Warmth, Comfort, Sophistication. Tagged vintage, retro, muted, warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Washed 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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