Foolscap
ReadingNote-taking and drafting tools; a cream that does not glare at night.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Photography — the warm cast contaminates every image on it.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 14.9
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 13.98:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 72 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 13.9
- worst under protanopia
These two are one colour to a reader with protanopia. 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.
/* Foolscap — Note-taking and drafting tools; a cream that does not glare at night. */
:root {
--palette-1: #1a0f04;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Foolscap
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Foolscap palette: #1A0F04, #4D3825, #836952, #B4A18F, #E8DCD0. It is for this: Note-taking and drafting tools; a cream that does not glare at night.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 64 — 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.