Kite Day
PlayfulEmpty states and illustrations where the art carries the screen.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Text on colour — every combination here fails contrast.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 15
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 1.45:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 12 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 0.3
- 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 body text and secondary text and the accent — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Kite Day — Empty states and illustrations where the art carries the screen. */
:root {
--palette-1: #8bd5fe;
--palette-2:Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Kite Day
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Kite Day palette: #8BD5FE, #D5CCFF, #FECFE2, #FFE1D1, #F9F98B. It is for this: Empty states and illustrations where the art carries the screen.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — spread from hue 234 — 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.