Card Index
Back officeRecord browsers with hundreds of rows and one selected state.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Data visualisation — the chroma ceiling is far too low.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 9
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 4.39:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 38 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 8.5
- 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 body text and secondary text and the accent — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Card Index — Record browsers with hundreds of rows and one selected state. */
:root {
--palette-1: #68524c;
--palette-2:Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Card Index
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Card Index palette: #68524C, #8B6966, #AB8387, #C0A4AB, #D6C5CD. It is for this: Record browsers with hundreds of rows and one selected state.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 12 — 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.