Forty color schemes I’d actually use, six colors each now, with the usage rule attached so you know where every color goes. Click one to try it on a real page, and click any color to copy it.
the only rule: 60% background, 30% surface, 10% accent, the buttons get the accent, and the pinch shows up twice, ever.
Six colors each, with the usage rule attached so you know where every color goes.
The palette is the one decision on this page that’s already made.
read this when you start doubting the choice
You will doubt it, probably by Thursday, and the doubt will arrive dressed as taste. It isn’t taste. It’s the same discomfort every open decision produces, and reopening the palette doesn’t resolve it, it just resets the clock so the discomfort can arrive again next week.
So here is the test: has a real person, someone who isn’t you, seen the site and said the colors confused them or made something hard to read? If yes, that’s a real problem, and you fix the one thing they named and stop there. If no, then the palette is fine and the itch is the itch, and the answer is to go do the next task on your list, because the palette is the one decision on this page that’s already made.
Consistency is what reads as professional, and a palette used twice in a row is already doing more for your brand than a better palette would, because nobody ever trusted a business less for looking like itself two weeks running.
This page is the product, so bookmark it, because the link in your email comes back here and this is the copy that gets updated when I add to it. And if something is broken or missing, reply to the delivery email and it reaches me.
v1.1 · 2 September 2026 · ten accents shifted so every button label clears WCAG AA, and each card now shows its contrast.
v1.0 · August 2026 · first version.