A Red Mark in the Archive

[Color guide — coloring.today / a-red-mark-in-the-archive]
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: Carbon #141414
Primary: Copy Gray #B8B8B8
Highlight: Proof Red #F04A33
Accent: Graphite #6A6A6A
Background: Paper White #F4F4F4

Mood: Grayscale with one red. A quiet, deliberate rhythm.
Suggested uses: Editorial design
Application note: Use white for an editorial spread, copy gray for image placeholders and graphite for large structural rules. Reserve red for one annotation or issue number.
Avoid: Do not turn every link, heading and divider red. The effect relies on one selective intervention among neutral surfaces. Carbon on Graphite measures 3.41:1 and is unsuitable for small text.
Use approximately 75% background, 20% primary, and 5% 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 / a-red-mark-in-the-archive]
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: Carbon #141414
Primary: Copy Gray #B8B8B8
Highlight: Proof Red #F04A33
Accent: Graphite #6A6A6A
Background: Paper White #F4F4F4

Mood: Grayscale with one red. A quiet, deliberate rhythm.
Suggested uses: Editorial design
Application note: Use white for an editorial spread, copy gray for image placeholders and graphite for large structural rules. Reserve red for one annotation or issue number.
Avoid: Do not turn every link, heading and divider red. The effect relies on one selective intervention among neutral surfaces. Carbon on Graphite measures 3.41:1 and is unsuitable for small text.
Use approximately 75% background, 20% primary, and 5% 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: #141414;
  --color-primary: #B8B8B8;
  --color-highlight: #F04A33;
  --color-accent: #6A6A6A;
  --color-background: #F4F4F4;
}
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 / a-red-mark-in-the-archive]
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: Carbon #141414
Primary: Copy Gray #B8B8B8
Highlight: Proof Red #F04A33
Accent: Graphite #6A6A6A
Background: Paper White #F4F4F4

Mood: Grayscale with one red. A quiet, deliberate rhythm.
Suggested uses: Editorial design
Application note: Use white for an editorial spread, copy gray for image placeholders and graphite for large structural rules. Reserve red for one annotation or issue number.
Avoid: Do not turn every link, heading and divider red. The effect relies on one selective intervention among neutral surfaces. Carbon on Graphite measures 3.41:1 and is unsuitable for small text.
Use approximately 75% background, 20% primary, and 5% 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: 16.75:1. 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.