Sediment Draws the River Back

[Color guide — coloring.today / sediment-draws-the-river-back]
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: River Ink #123E41
Primary: Silt Violet #B4A3BA
Highlight: New Reed #43D13D
Accent: Field Stone #A0A2A0
Background: Mineral Paper #D7E0CF

Mood: A folded mineral journal with a hand-drawn river section, layered captions, and one vivid green seam
Suggested uses: Editorial design
Application note: Use Mineral Paper for the spread, River Ink for all essential copy, Silt Violet for sediment layers, New Reed for one narrow emphasis, and Field Stone as a supporting note-panel surface. Keep River Ink on the gray panel rather than using gray as small text.
Avoid: All four River Ink text pairs pass normal-size AA, but Field Stone is close at 4.56:1 and must be rechecked after any change. Silt Violet and Field Stone are only 1.09:1 apart, so separate them with River Ink rules, spacing, and direct labels.
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 / sediment-draws-the-river-back]
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: River Ink #123E41
Primary: Silt Violet #B4A3BA
Highlight: New Reed #43D13D
Accent: Field Stone #A0A2A0
Background: Mineral Paper #D7E0CF

Mood: A folded mineral journal with a hand-drawn river section, layered captions, and one vivid green seam
Suggested uses: Editorial design
Application note: Use Mineral Paper for the spread, River Ink for all essential copy, Silt Violet for sediment layers, New Reed for one narrow emphasis, and Field Stone as a supporting note-panel surface. Keep River Ink on the gray panel rather than using gray as small text.
Avoid: All four River Ink text pairs pass normal-size AA, but Field Stone is close at 4.56:1 and must be rechecked after any change. Silt Violet and Field Stone are only 1.09:1 apart, so separate them with River Ink rules, spacing, and direct labels.
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: #123E41;
  --color-primary: #B4A3BA;
  --color-highlight: #43D13D;
  --color-accent: #A0A2A0;
  --color-background: #D7E0CF;
}
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 / sediment-draws-the-river-back]
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: River Ink #123E41
Primary: Silt Violet #B4A3BA
Highlight: New Reed #43D13D
Accent: Field Stone #A0A2A0
Background: Mineral Paper #D7E0CF

Mood: A folded mineral journal with a hand-drawn river section, layered captions, and one vivid green seam
Suggested uses: Editorial design
Application note: Use Mineral Paper for the spread, River Ink for all essential copy, Silt Violet for sediment layers, New Reed for one narrow emphasis, and Field Stone as a supporting note-panel surface. Keep River Ink on the gray panel rather than using gray as small text.
Avoid: All four River Ink text pairs pass normal-size AA, but Field Stone is close at 4.56:1 and must be rechecked after any change. Silt Violet and Field Stone are only 1.09:1 apart, so separate them with River Ink rules, spacing, and direct labels.
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: 8.63:1. 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.