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Newsprint
ReadingHigh-density text at small sizes, where any chroma becomes noise.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Consumer apps — it reads as a wire service.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 14.8
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 15.36:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 74 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 14.7
- worst under protanopia
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.
/* Newsprint — High-density text at small sizes, where any chroma becomes noise. */
:root {
--palette-1: #0e1c27;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Newsprint
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Newsprint palette: #0E1C27, #394A60, #707D9A, #B0B4CC, #F1F0FF. It is for this: High-density text at small sizes, where any chroma becomes noise.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 266 — 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.