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Cotton Rag
ReadingMinimal writing surfaces where the only real colour is the text.
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Do not use this for
Charts, dashboards, anything with a legend.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 15
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 17.82:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 80 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 15
- worst under deuteranopia
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 — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Cotton Rag — Minimal writing surfaces where the only real colour is the text. */
:root {
--palette-1: #11120d;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Cotton Rag
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Cotton Rag palette: #11120D, #42433B, #7B7B71, #B9B8B0, #FAF9F1. It is for this: Minimal writing surfaces where the only real colour is the text.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 106 — 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.