Rose Binding
ReadingLong evening essays where the page stays warm and only the ink is dark.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Charts: five steps of one hue family read as one series, not five.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 15.2
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 12.48:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 66 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 13.5
- 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 — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Rose Binding — Long evening essays where the page stays warm and only the ink is dark. */
:root {
--palette-1: #411a25;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Rose Binding
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Rose Binding palette: #411A25, #783D5B, #A86B9B, #CBA7D3, #F0E6FF. It is for this: Long evening essays where the page stays warm and only the ink is dark.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 335 — 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.