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Payroll
Back officeFinance back ends that need one blue for links and one amber for holds.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Emotional moments — nothing here celebrates anything.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 19.7
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 5.42:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 64 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 18.7
- worst under deuteranopia
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.
/* Payroll — Finance back ends that need one blue for links and one amber for holds. */
:root {
--palette-1:Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Payroll
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Payroll palette: #003751, #0071A0, #F7F0DA, #4E3501, #C2A678. It is for this: Finance back ends that need one blue for links and one amber for holds.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — scene from hue 236 and 80 — 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.