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Paper Mill
ReadingLong-form articles: two ink weights, a stock, and one blue for links.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Charts — there are only two usable series here.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 20.8
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 5.67:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 70 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 19.1
- worst under tritanopia
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 clears WCAG AA as it stands.
/* Paper Mill — Long-form articles: two ink weights, a stock, and one blue for links. */
:root {
--palette-1:Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Paper Mill
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Paper Mill palette: #3C1300, #8F3B01, #FBEEDA, #052756, #799ACA. It is for this: Long-form articles: two ink weights, a stock, and one blue for links.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — scene from hue 46 and 258 — 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.