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🌸 Spring Color Palette 2010

Fresh greens, soft blossoms, warm yellows, and the tentative blues of a sky beginning to open — the colours of a world coming back to life.

2009 2010 2011

Spring arrives as a negotiation between the last cold and the first warmth. The colours appear tentative at first — pale greens barely distinguishable from grey, blossoms that look almost white in early morning light — and then, suddenly, vivid. Forsythia turns the hedgerows gold before a single leaf has appeared. Cherry blossom opens in a pink so delicate it seems to hover in the air. The sky shifts from winter's flat white through a pale, luminous blue that feels like a promise. This palette tries to hold all of that at once: the freshness of new grass, the warmth of early daffodils, the soft lilac of wisteria just beginning to open, and the cool clarity of April light.

The 6 colors

RGB (92-193-139)

#5cc18b

moderate and light — a green that reads as open.

The Salted Canyon outside Bearing →

RGB (238-150-204)

#ee96cc

vivid and very light — a pink that reads as open.

Silvery Aura through Enchanting →

RGB (223-236-136)

#dfec88

vivid and very light — a yellow that reads as open.

When the Airy Breath past Enlivening →

RGB (168-196-214)

#a8c4d6

A muted blue: very light, considered, and steady.

Lambent Blaze on Enlivening →

RGB (167-215-178)

#a7d7b2

A muted green: very light, considered, and steady.

The Breath despite Cool Coruscating →

RGB (223-73-173)

#df49ad

A light, vivid pink with a quiet presence.

The Arch round Honeyed Fashioning →

CSS custom properties

:root {  --spring-1: #5cc18b;  --spring-2: #ee96cc;  --spring-3: #dfec88;  --spring-4: #a8c4d6;  --spring-5: #a7d7b2;  --spring-6: #df49ad;}

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