Compass Rose
ChartsNavigation dashboards and progress maps where five series share one screen without colliding.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Marketing landing pages, where five strong data colours fight the one call to action.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 37.7
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 6.97:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 48 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 24.7
- worst under tritanopia
Every pair here survives protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia, so these five can stand for five different things.
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.
/* Compass Rose — Navigation dashboards and progress maps where five series share one screen without colliding. */
:root {
--palette-1:Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Compass Rose
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Compass Rose palette: #014144, #8F5D04, #5977FE, #DEC500, #09E3C8. It is for this: Navigation dashboards and progress maps where five series share one screen without colliding.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — series from hue 72 — 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.