INDEPENDENT STUDIO · SEOUL
Design with
today’s color.
A little space for fresh ideas. A considered palette for whatever comes next.
A little color. A new perspective.
Published Jul 21, 2026
Five colors, endless possibilities. Select a color to copy its HEX.
A warm reuse-studio palette with a rust-orange bench, navy records, cream object cards, teal condition panels, and lavender booking details.
The feeling
Repaired aluminum objects cataloged on a rust bench with cream, teal, and lavender panels
Explore this palette ↓A rust-orange workbench brings warmth to repaired aluminum trays, lamps, and storage pieces. Navy records stay precise across the colored field; cream cards give each object breathing room, deep teal gathers condition notes, and pale lavender softens the final booking step.
Let Bench Rust run behind the collection index and workshop header, carrying Foundry Navy names, filters, and short introductions. Object Cream becomes the inspection card: show dimensions, material, repair date, and front, side, or underside views in navy. Place before and after labels directly beside their images rather than encoding them by color.
Condition Teal suits longer repair notes when paired with Object Cream text. Booking Lavender can hold the collection date, time selector, contact fields, and confirmation summary in Foundry Navy. Divide the main surfaces 47/35/18 among rust, cream, and teal; lavender remains a focused booking layer outside that ratio.
Foundry Navy passes on Bench Rust at about 5.33:1, Object Cream at 14.26:1, and Booking Lavender at 10.66:1. It fails on Condition Teal at about 1.85:1, where Object Cream reaches 7.70:1. Condition Teal and Bench Rust are only about 2.88:1 apart, just below the 3:1 non-text threshold, while lavender and rust are 2.00:1; place teal panels inside Object Cream cards, where the edge reaches 7.70:1, and give lavender panels navy outlines against the rust field.
A considered balance
Set the studio index on Bench Rust with Foundry Navy text. Build object cards in Object Cream with navy records, condition panels in Condition Teal with cream text, and booking details in Booking Lavender with navy labels.
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
Buttons & key signals
Background · Primary · Highlight. Use text and accent colors where their roles call for them.
Recommended text on highlight
The original text has low contrast (1.85:1). This example uses Object Cream (#F5E9D2) from the same palette instead of #101B32 on #164F50, improving contrast to 7.70:1. This meets WCAG AA for normal text.
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 / second-lives-across-the-rust-bench] 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: Foundry Navy #101B32 Primary: Object Cream #F5E9D2 Highlight: Condition Teal #164F50 Accent: Booking Lavender #D8C5E7 Background: Bench Rust #CF7958 Mood: Repaired aluminum objects cataloged on a rust bench with cream, teal, and lavender panels Suggested uses: Sustainable brands Application note: Set the studio index on Bench Rust with Foundry Navy text. Build object cards in Object Cream with navy records, condition panels in Condition Teal with cream text, and booking details in Booking Lavender with navy labels. Avoid: Do not place Foundry Navy text on Condition Teal; the ratio is about 1.85:1. Use Object Cream there at about 7.70:1. Teal and rust reach only 2.88:1, while lavender and rust reach 2.00:1, so place teal panels inside cream cards and outline lavender panels in navy on the rust field. Use approximately 47% background, 35% primary, and 18% 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 / second-lives-across-the-rust-bench]
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: Foundry Navy #101B32
Primary: Object Cream #F5E9D2
Highlight: Condition Teal #164F50
Accent: Booking Lavender #D8C5E7
Background: Bench Rust #CF7958
Mood: Repaired aluminum objects cataloged on a rust bench with cream, teal, and lavender panels
Suggested uses: Sustainable brands
Application note: Set the studio index on Bench Rust with Foundry Navy text. Build object cards in Object Cream with navy records, condition panels in Condition Teal with cream text, and booking details in Booking Lavender with navy labels.
Avoid: Do not place Foundry Navy text on Condition Teal; the ratio is about 1.85:1. Use Object Cream there at about 7.70:1. Teal and rust reach only 2.88:1, while lavender and rust reach 2.00:1, so place teal panels inside cream cards and outline lavender panels in navy on the rust field.
Use approximately 47% background, 35% primary, and 18% 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: #101B32;
--color-primary: #F5E9D2;
--color-highlight: #164F50;
--color-accent: #D8C5E7;
--color-background: #CF7958;
}
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 / second-lives-across-the-rust-bench] 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: Foundry Navy #101B32 Primary: Object Cream #F5E9D2 Highlight: Condition Teal #164F50 Accent: Booking Lavender #D8C5E7 Background: Bench Rust #CF7958 Mood: Repaired aluminum objects cataloged on a rust bench with cream, teal, and lavender panels Suggested uses: Sustainable brands Application note: Set the studio index on Bench Rust with Foundry Navy text. Build object cards in Object Cream with navy records, condition panels in Condition Teal with cream text, and booking details in Booking Lavender with navy labels. Avoid: Do not place Foundry Navy text on Condition Teal; the ratio is about 1.85:1. Use Object Cream there at about 7.70:1. Teal and rust reach only 2.88:1, while lavender and rust reach 2.00:1, so place teal panels inside cream cards and outline lavender panels in navy on the rust field. Use approximately 47% background, 35% primary, and 18% 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: 5.33:1. 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: #101B32;
--color-primary: #F5E9D2;
--color-highlight: #164F50;
--color-accent: #D8C5E7;
--color-background: #CF7958;
}
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