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A little color. A new perspective.

Published Jun 24, 2026

Still Water in the Courtyard

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Five colors, endless possibilities. Select a color to copy its HEX.

A calm cyan palette for resort booking, pairing pale mineral water with deep teal type, clear pool-blue controls, and a dark selection color for a quiet, dependable stay-planning experience.

The feeling

A still mineral-water courtyard shaped into a calm, clear resort-booking flow.

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The mood

Imagine a small resort courtyard before breakfast, when pale mineral water reflects the stone walls and the pool is almost still. Deep Well gives the scene a confident voice, while Mineral Veil, Pool Tile, Quiet Current, and Waterline keep it cool, calm, and gently chromatic.

How to use it

Start with Mineral Veil across 58% of the interface for page backgrounds and spacious booking forms. Use Pool Tile across 30% for room cards, date fields, price panels, and large action areas. Reserve Quiet Current for about 12% of selected dates, active tabs, and the primary booking button; set those labels in Mineral Veil. Deep Well works for headings, body copy, prices, and labels on Mineral Veil, Pool Tile, or Waterline. Waterline can soften availability badges, amenity chips, and secondary panels. The ratio is a practical starting point, not a rigid rule.

What to watch

Do not place Deep Well text on Quiet Current: at 1.72:1, that pair fails WCAG AA for small text. Use Mineral Veil on Quiet Current instead, which reaches 5.64:1. Keep Waterline and Mineral Veil apart with spacing or a Deep Well border because their low contrast is decorative rather than semantic. Do not use color alone to show room availability or selected dates; pair the state with text, an icon, or a clear outline.

A considered balance

Make room for
the right colors.

Use Mineral Veil for the page canvas and booking-form whitespace; Pool Tile for room cards, date fields, price panels, and large supporting controls; Quiet Current for the main booking button, active tabs, and selected dates with Mineral Veil labels; Deep Well for headings, body text, prices, and form labels; and Waterline for amenity chips and secondary panels. Add text, icons, or outlines to every availability state.

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.

58 Base
30 Main
12 Point
Mineral Veil

Background & breathing room

Pool Tile

Cards, graphics & sections

Quiet Current

Focal areas & key details

Background · Primary · Highlight. Use text and accent colors where their roles call for them.

Text on background
9.72:1 #063C44 on #CDEDEA · AAA normal text
Text on primary
5.35:1 #063C44 on #4FBDB7 · AA normal text
Text on highlight
1.72:1 #063C44 on #00636B · Not suitable for text

The original text has low contrast (1.72:1). This example uses Mineral Veil (#CDEDEA) from the same palette instead of #063C44 on #00636B, improving contrast to 5.64:1. This meets WCAG AA for normal text.

Text on accent
7.12:1 #063C44 on #8AD4CD · AAA 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

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A world of possibilities.

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COLOR NOTE

Deep Well on Quiet Current is only 1.72:1 and must not be used for small or large text. Use Mineral Veil on Quiet Current instead at 5.64:1. Waterline against Mineral Veil is also too subtle for text, borders, availability status, or selected dates; use Deep Well for those meanings. Do not rely on cyan alone to distinguish available, unavailable, and selected rooms.

From inspiration to creation

Your next idea,
in these colors.

Add a considered color direction to the design you already have in mind. Your layout and instructions stay yours.

  1. Write your design request.
  2. Choose a color guide and copy it.
  3. Paste it after your request.
  4. Review the result and check readability.

Try it in the design or AI tool you already use.

[Color guide — coloring.today / still-water-in-the-courtyard]
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: Deep Well #063C44
Primary: Pool Tile #4FBDB7
Highlight: Quiet Current #00636B
Accent: Waterline #8AD4CD
Background: Mineral Veil #CDEDEA

Mood: A still mineral-water courtyard shaped into a calm, clear resort-booking flow.
Suggested uses: Resort booking
Application note: Use Mineral Veil for the page canvas and booking-form whitespace; Pool Tile for room cards, date fields, price panels, and large supporting controls; Quiet Current for the main booking button, active tabs, and selected dates with Mineral Veil labels; Deep Well for headings, body text, prices, and form labels; and Waterline for amenity chips and secondary panels. Add text, icons, or outlines to every availability state.
Avoid: Deep Well on Quiet Current is only 1.72:1 and must not be used for small or large text. Use Mineral Veil on Quiet Current instead at 5.64:1. Waterline against Mineral Veil is also too subtle for text, borders, availability status, or selected dates; use Deep Well for those meanings. Do not rely on cyan alone to distinguish available, unavailable, and selected rooms.
Use approximately 58% background, 30% primary, and 12% 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 / still-water-in-the-courtyard]
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: Deep Well #063C44
Primary: Pool Tile #4FBDB7
Highlight: Quiet Current #00636B
Accent: Waterline #8AD4CD
Background: Mineral Veil #CDEDEA

Mood: A still mineral-water courtyard shaped into a calm, clear resort-booking flow.
Suggested uses: Resort booking
Application note: Use Mineral Veil for the page canvas and booking-form whitespace; Pool Tile for room cards, date fields, price panels, and large supporting controls; Quiet Current for the main booking button, active tabs, and selected dates with Mineral Veil labels; Deep Well for headings, body text, prices, and form labels; and Waterline for amenity chips and secondary panels. Add text, icons, or outlines to every availability state.
Avoid: Deep Well on Quiet Current is only 1.72:1 and must not be used for small or large text. Use Mineral Veil on Quiet Current instead at 5.64:1. Waterline against Mineral Veil is also too subtle for text, borders, availability status, or selected dates; use Deep Well for those meanings. Do not rely on cyan alone to distinguish available, unavailable, and selected rooms.
Use approximately 58% background, 30% primary, and 12% 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: #063C44;
  --color-primary: #4FBDB7;
  --color-highlight: #00636B;
  --color-accent: #8AD4CD;
  --color-background: #CDEDEA;
}
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 / still-water-in-the-courtyard]
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: Deep Well #063C44
Primary: Pool Tile #4FBDB7
Highlight: Quiet Current #00636B
Accent: Waterline #8AD4CD
Background: Mineral Veil #CDEDEA

Mood: A still mineral-water courtyard shaped into a calm, clear resort-booking flow.
Suggested uses: Resort booking
Application note: Use Mineral Veil for the page canvas and booking-form whitespace; Pool Tile for room cards, date fields, price panels, and large supporting controls; Quiet Current for the main booking button, active tabs, and selected dates with Mineral Veil labels; Deep Well for headings, body text, prices, and form labels; and Waterline for amenity chips and secondary panels. Add text, icons, or outlines to every availability state.
Avoid: Deep Well on Quiet Current is only 1.72:1 and must not be used for small or large text. Use Mineral Veil on Quiet Current instead at 5.64:1. Waterline against Mineral Veil is also too subtle for text, borders, availability status, or selected dates; use Deep Well for those meanings. Do not rely on cyan alone to distinguish available, unavailable, and selected rooms.
Use approximately 58% background, 30% primary, and 12% 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: 9.72:1. 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

Five colors.
Ready to use.

Copy the same colors as semantic CSS variables. Every preview and prompt on this page uses this palette.

:root {
  --color-text: #063C44;
  --color-primary: #4FBDB7;
  --color-highlight: #00636B;
  --color-accent: #8AD4CD;
  --color-background: #CDEDEA;
}

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