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Manuscript
ReadingArchives and long documents; every step is a shade of the same paper.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Status systems — there is no colour left over for meaning.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 13.6
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 11.61:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 64 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 12.7
- 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 clears WCAG AA as it stands.
/* Manuscript — Archives and long documents; every step is a shade of the same paper. */
:root {
--palette-1:Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Manuscript
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Manuscript palette: #311E1D, #624444, #946F72, #BFA2A6, #EBD9DC. It is for this: Archives and long documents; every step is a shade of the same paper.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 14 — 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.