Loading Dock
Back officeLoading docks and dispatch bays, where scanners run all night and one color flags the late truck.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Daylight marketing pages; nothing in the set lifts past mid-grey, so no step can carry a headline.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 10.2
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 4.83:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 48 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 5.3
- worst under deuteranopia
These two are one colour to a reader with deuteranopia. Fine while the set is read as an order; never use them to mean two different things without a label or an icon as well.
A suggested mapping · derived, then measured
Five colours are not an interface, so this is an offer rather than a token set. It does not clear WCAG AA on secondary text and the accent — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Loading Dock — Loading docks and dispatch bays, where scanners run all night and one color flags the late truck. */
:root {Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Loading Dock
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Loading Dock palette: #000505, #00211A, #1E402F, #4D5D4B, #777D6F. It is for this: Loading docks and dispatch bays, where scanners run all night and one color flags the late truck.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 160 — and the five colours are derived from it in OKLCH, where a step of lightness is a step your eye agrees with rather than one the hex numbers agree with. That is why the numbers above are properties of this palette rather than claims about it.