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🎃 Halloween Color Palette 2008

Deep orange, midnight black, electric violet, acid green — the colours of the uncanny, the playful frightening, and the thinning of boundaries between worlds.

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Halloween's palette is one of the most recognisable in the Western calendar: the vivid orange of the carved pumpkin against absolute darkness, purple as the colour of mystery and the space between states, acid green as the colour of potion and poison and old apothecary bottles. These are colours that create deliberate tension — warm against cool, vivid against dark, playful against threatening. The orange is the warmest thing in the room; the black absorbs everything around it. Halloween requires exactly this contrast: safety and unease, familiar and strange, the comfort of candy and the edge of something older.

The 5 colors

RGB (113-70-4)

#714604

A vivid orange: dark, considered, and steady.

What Mournful Brine amid Wasting →

RGB (195-28-217)

#c31cd9

vivid and medium — a magenta that reads as grounded.

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RGB (20-169-40)

#14a928

A dark, vivid green with a quiet presence.

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RGB (208-45-37)

#d02d25

This medium red sits at the vivid end of its family.

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RGB (210-141-30)

#d28d1e

This medium orange sits at the vivid end of its family.

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CSS custom properties

:root {  --halloween-1: #714604;  --halloween-2: #c31cd9;  --halloween-3: #14a928;  --halloween-4: #d02d25;  --halloween-5: #d28d1e;}

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