Storm Jetty

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Design that earns its keep

A tiny landing page, painted entirely with this palette so you can judge it doing real work.

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Every choice explained.

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How the preview picks colors: the lightest swatch becomes the page background, the darkest becomes the text, and the most vivid becomes the button. To override: tap a chip to arm it, then click any outlined part of the mockup to paint (or drag the chip there). Your arrangement is saved into this page's URL, so copying the link shares it.

Why it works

This is a seascape reduced to its values: foam, drift, slate, and storm are the same overcast blue-gray from spray-white down to deep water. Buoy red-orange is the lone warm signal, and like an actual buoy it is legible from anywhere in the composition because nothing else competes on saturation. The wide gray range makes it unusually good for illustration, where atmosphere is built from tonal layering.

Built around Slate Gray.

Use this palette

Hex values
  • #708090slate
  • #4c5a68storm
  • #b9c2cadrift
  • #eef1f2foam
  • #c65540buoy
CSS custom properties

The variables, doing badge duty

slatestormdriftfoambuoy
:root {
  --color-slate: #708090;
  --color-storm: #4c5a68;
  --color-drift: #b9c2ca;
  --color-foam: #eef1f2;
  --color-buoy: #c65540;
}
Tailwind v4 theme

In Storm Jetty's world

@theme {
  --color-slate: #708090;
  --color-storm: #4c5a68;
  --color-drift: #b9c2ca;
  --color-foam: #eef1f2;
  --color-buoy: #c65540;
}
JSON
{
  "name": "Storm Jetty",
  "colors": [
    {
      "hex": "#708090",
      "role": "slate"
    },
    {
      "hex": "#4c5a68",
      "role": "storm"
    },
    {
      "hex": "#b9c2ca",
      "role": "drift"
    },
    {
      "hex": "#eef1f2",
      "role": "foam"
    },
    {
      "hex": "#c65540",
      "role": "buoy"
    }
  ]
}

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