Oak Journal color palette

Oak Journal is a 4-color palette drawing on browns, teals and cyans and neutrals. In OKLCH its lightness runs from 20% (#201105, very dark) to 94% (#F7E8DD, very light), and its most saturated color, #4B2E16, is muted. 2 of its 3 chromatic colors sit on the warm side of the hue wheel. 3 of its 6 color pairs reach the WCAG AA ratio of 4.5:1 for body text. It is tagged forest, earth tone, brown, teal and muted.

ForestEarth toneBrownTealMuted

Color codes

ColorHEXRGBHSLOKLCH
Rich Navy #201105 rgb(32, 17, 5) hsl(27, 73%, 7%) oklch(19.5% 0.034 59.8)
Pakistan Green #4B2E16 rgb(75, 46, 22) hsl(27, 55%, 19%) oklch(33.1% 0.056 58.7)
Charcoal #1F5058 rgb(31, 80, 88) hsl(188, 48%, 23%) oklch(40.2% 0.054 209.8)
Apricot #F7E8DD rgb(247, 232, 221) hsl(25, 62%, 92%) oklch(94% 0.022 58.8)

Accessibility

The best text and background pairs in Oak Journal, by WCAG 2 contrast ratio, with the APCA lightness contrast (Lc) of the text on its background.

PairWCAG 2LevelAPCA Lc
#F7E8DD on #201105 15.34:1 AAA Lc -93.7
#F7E8DD on #4B2E16 10.31:1 AAA Lc -88.1
#F7E8DD on #1F5058 7.48:1 AAA Lc -81.4

Color vision

No pair of colors comes within ΔE 0.06 of another under protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia or achromatopsia.

  • Protanopia

  • Deuteranopia

  • Tritanopia

  • Achromatopsia

Use it in code

Install these colors as Tailwind CSS v4 theme colors with shadcn: npx shadcn@latest add https://getcolors.so/r/palette/201105-4b2e16-1f5058-f7e8dd.json.

Make it your own

Edit the colors, build a full light and dark color system from them, or see them on real UI.

Gradients from these colors