INDEPENDENT STUDIO · SEOUL
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today’s color.
A little space for fresh ideas. A considered palette for whatever comes next.
A little color. A new perspective.
Published Jun 26, 2026
Five colors, endless possibilities. Select a color to copy its HEX.
A bright balcony diary palette with lime daylight, deep olive notes, herb green, a sunlit yellow marker, and cool lilac. Made for tracking pots, photographs, and personal routines.
The feeling
A bright spring balcony diary with glowing leaves, handwritten notes, and a cool lilac planter
Explore this palette ↓Picture a small spring balcony above a waking street: new leaves glow in sharp morning light, handwritten pot labels sit between photographs, and a lilac planter cools the green view. The palette feels lively and personal.
Leaf Note gives the diary a steady voice. Balcony Lime opens the canvas, Pot Herb marks plant groups, Sun Tag calls out today’s entry, and Cool Planter adds a gentle counterpoint to the greens.
Use Balcony Lime for the diary canvas and Leaf Note for dates, notes, navigation, and form labels. Pot Herb can fill photo frames, pot cards, or progress strips that do not contain small copy. Use Sun Tag for a selected day or watering reminder and Cool Planter for photo captions, filter chips, or a secondary routine marker.
Start with 62% Balcony Lime, 28% Pot Herb, and 10% Sun Tag across large surfaces. Add Leaf Note and Cool Planter according to content needs. Pair every watering or care state with a word or icon so color is never the only signal.
Leaf Note on Balcony Lime measures about 11.32:1 and is the safest small-text pair. It also reaches about 8.95:1 on Sun Tag and 5.05:1 on Cool Planter. Leaf Note on Pot Herb is only about 3.25:1, so do not place body copy, dates, or controls directly on the green; use a Balcony Lime inset or keep that plane visual.
Do not let the lime canvas and yellow highlight become equal-sized neighboring blocks, because the diary hierarchy will blur. Keep lilac secondary, and use words or icons alongside color wherever an entry or routine changes state.
A considered balance
Use Balcony Lime as the diary canvas and Leaf Note for readable copy. Apply Pot Herb to photo frames and non-text plant cards, Sun Tag to selected dates or reminders, and Cool Planter to captions, chips, and secondary routine markers.
Start with a generous background, introduce your primary color, then use the highlight sparingly. The ratios are a guide for large surfaces, not a fixed recipe.
Background & breathing room
Cards, graphics & sections
Focal areas & key details
Background · Primary · Highlight. Use text and accent colors where their roles call for them.
Best available text on primary
The original text has low contrast (3.25:1). This example shows the strongest available pair: Balcony Lime (#DDF77A) on #4F8A4C at 3.48:1. It still falls below 4.5:1 for normal text. Use a different background to meet that contrast requirement.
Contrast is calculated for these specific pairs. Large text means at least 24 px regular or about 18.7 px bold. Check every pairing in your final design.
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES
See how these five colors come together in a website, a poster, a brand, and a presentation. Explore a different palette and watch the mood change.
INDEPENDENT STUDIO · SEOUL
A little space for fresh ideas. A considered palette for whatever comes next.
THE POSTER STUDY
Big type, quiet space, and a single moment of color.
THE BRAND STUDY
THE PRESENTATION STUDY
A cover, a key message, and a plan. One palette brings the story together.
ONDA° / IDEAS IN MOTION
Make room for what comes next.
01 / 03 · THE VISION02 / 03 · THE IDEA
03 / 03 · THE NEXT STEP
From inspiration to creation
Add a considered color direction to the design you already have in mind. Your layout and instructions stay yours.
Try it in the design or AI tool you already use.
[Color guide — coloring.today / new-leaves-above-the-street] Apply this palette to the design requested above. Preserve the requested layout, content, and interactions. If an explicit requirement conflicts with this color guide, identify the conflict instead of silently overriding it. Text: Leaf Note #243315 Primary: Pot Herb #4F8A4C Highlight: Sun Tag #FFCB5C Accent: Cool Planter #A894D6 Background: Balcony Lime #DDF77A Mood: A bright spring balcony diary with glowing leaves, handwritten notes, and a cool lilac planter Suggested uses: Lifestyle apps Application note: Use Balcony Lime as the diary canvas and Leaf Note for readable copy. Apply Pot Herb to photo frames and non-text plant cards, Sun Tag to selected dates or reminders, and Cool Planter to captions, chips, and secondary routine markers. Avoid: Do not use Leaf Note for small text on Pot Herb; the pairing measures about 3.25:1. Place copy on a Balcony Lime inset, keep green panels visual, and avoid making lime and yellow equally dominant. Use approximately 62% background, 28% primary, and 10% highlight across large surfaces. These ratios are a starting point, not a rigid rule. Use text and accent colors according to their roles. Keep the original HEX values. Choose readable text/background pairings without silently changing the palette. Do not introduce unrelated colors.
[Color guide — coloring.today / new-leaves-above-the-street]
Apply this palette to the design requested above. Preserve the requested layout, content, and interactions. If an explicit requirement conflicts with this color guide, identify the conflict instead of silently overriding it.
Text: Leaf Note #243315
Primary: Pot Herb #4F8A4C
Highlight: Sun Tag #FFCB5C
Accent: Cool Planter #A894D6
Background: Balcony Lime #DDF77A
Mood: A bright spring balcony diary with glowing leaves, handwritten notes, and a cool lilac planter
Suggested uses: Lifestyle apps
Application note: Use Balcony Lime as the diary canvas and Leaf Note for readable copy. Apply Pot Herb to photo frames and non-text plant cards, Sun Tag to selected dates or reminders, and Cool Planter to captions, chips, and secondary routine markers.
Avoid: Do not use Leaf Note for small text on Pot Herb; the pairing measures about 3.25:1. Place copy on a Balcony Lime inset, keep green panels visual, and avoid making lime and yellow equally dominant.
Use approximately 62% background, 28% primary, and 10% highlight across large surfaces. These ratios are a starting point, not a rigid rule. Use text and accent colors according to their roles.
Use these semantic tokens consistently. Keep the original HEX values.
:root {
--color-text: #243315;
--color-primary: #4F8A4C;
--color-highlight: #FFCB5C;
--color-accent: #A894D6;
--color-background: #DDF77A;
}
Background is the canvas, text is readable copy, primary is a key surface, highlight draws attention, and accent adds small secondary details.
[Color guide — coloring.today / new-leaves-above-the-street] Apply this palette to the design requested above. Preserve the requested layout, content, and interactions. If an explicit requirement conflicts with this color guide, identify the conflict instead of silently overriding it. Text: Leaf Note #243315 Primary: Pot Herb #4F8A4C Highlight: Sun Tag #FFCB5C Accent: Cool Planter #A894D6 Background: Balcony Lime #DDF77A Mood: A bright spring balcony diary with glowing leaves, handwritten notes, and a cool lilac planter Suggested uses: Lifestyle apps Application note: Use Balcony Lime as the diary canvas and Leaf Note for readable copy. Apply Pot Herb to photo frames and non-text plant cards, Sun Tag to selected dates or reminders, and Cool Planter to captions, chips, and secondary routine markers. Avoid: Do not use Leaf Note for small text on Pot Herb; the pairing measures about 3.25:1. Place copy on a Balcony Lime inset, keep green panels visual, and avoid making lime and yellow equally dominant. Use approximately 62% background, 28% primary, and 10% highlight across large surfaces. These ratios are a starting point, not a rigid rule. Use text and accent colors according to their roles. Text/background contrast: 11.32:1. This is one measured pair, not a guarantee for the whole palette. Check every actual text/background pairing against WCAG AA. Prefer readable combinations from the original colors, keep visible keyboard focus, and never communicate state through color alone. If no original pairing meets the requirement, propose a separately labeled derived color with its original HEX, proposed HEX, purpose and measured contrast. Never overwrite the source palette.
This guide preserves the original HEX values. Review the output before using it.
Bring it into your project
Copy the same colors as semantic CSS variables. Every preview and prompt on this page uses this palette.
:root {
--color-text: #243315;
--color-primary: #4F8A4C;
--color-highlight: #FFCB5C;
--color-accent: #A894D6;
--color-background: #DDF77A;
}
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