A little colour memory test

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Remember this shade. It disappears in three seconds.

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Christmas colour palettes

Christmas palettes pairing festive reds with leafy greens and a light neutral for cards, packaging and seasonal illustrations. Explore 144 palettes.

Colour pairings & usage tips

Use these colours.

Choose either red or green as the main festive colour and use the other for smaller ornaments or borders. Keep the light neutral for breathing room around the design.

Text & contrast.

Red and green can be difficult to distinguish, especially at similar lightness. Label states with text or symbols and check lettering against its own background.

A pairing to start with.

In Hydrangea & Terracotta, #385F18 against #90BEEC has a contrast ratio of 3.82:1. Use this pair for large text (24px, or about 19px bold); it falls below the normal-text threshold. This checks opaque colours only; use the contrast checker to review text in a palette preview. Transparency and gradients need their own checks.

The five swatches span 44–79% OKLCH lightness. Try different colour roles in the palette generator.

THE COLOR SHEET / RESTORE

Bring your colours back?

Triadictriadic · mixed
Brandtriadic · mixed
Retrotetradic · warm
Botanicalcomplementary · mixed
Jewel Tonestriadic · mixed
Triadicrectangle · mixed
Brandtriadic · mixed
Retrotetradic · warm
Gruvboxcompound · mixed
Jewel Tonessplit-complementary · mixed
Triadictriadic · mixed
Brandtriadic · mixed
Retromonochromatic · warm
Botanicalcompound · mixed
Jewel Tonestriadic · mixed
Triadictriadic · mixed
Brandtriadic · mixed
Retrotetradic · warm
Studio Ghiblicompound · mixed
Botanicalcompound · mixed
Triadictriadic · mixed
Brandtriadic · mixed
Retromonochromatic · warm
Jewel Tonestriadic · mixed

THE COLOR SHEET / POSTCARD

Send a little colour.

THE PICTURE SIDE

Just for this postcard. Your saved memory stays as you wrote it.