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Album Transit Fruit Market Katagami

A softer Polished Pop Heritage palette: family-album cream and ink over a Katagami indigo base, with selective fruit-market and transit-map accents that stay flat, legible, and print-friendly.

warm-neutral with cool indigo relief, aged cream, ink, indigo, apple, persimmon, pool blue, plum.

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Colours

4 signature colours, 5 neutrals, 4 semantic.

Signature

Album apple green#4F7D32
Persimmon stall print#B76332
Transit pool blue#2F6E8A
Gloss plum cover#733A59

Neutrals

bg#F2E8D2
surface#FBF5E8
text#242723
muted#746F65
border#CFC2A8

Semantic

success#4F7D32
warning#B76332
error#8B3F4B
info#2F6E8A

Ramps

accent
neutral

Using it

Do

  • Use aged cream as the dominant ground and ink as the default text color; most screens should feel like a handled book page or photo-album mount, not beige minimalism.
  • Let apple green be the primary action and freshness cue; hold persimmon, pool blue, and plum to small bands, badges, chart series, route lines, and cover-spine moments.
  • Pair indigo and pool blue with cream for transit-map legibility; use straight flat fields and crisp boundaries rather than gradients for primary hierarchy.
  • For Katagami pattern fills, keep stencil motifs one or two tones away from the ground: neutral.100 on bg, indigo.50 on surface, or accent.50 behind dense content.
  • Use plum as a glossy editorial accent in thumbnail-size doses—book-cover tabs, selected filters, or fashion-caption marks.

Avoid

  • Do not make all four accents equally loud; this becomes retro rainbow instead of polished heritage.
  • Do not set body copy in muted on cream or surface; muted is for metadata, captions, map legends, and disabled supporting text only.
  • Do not use pure black, pure white, neon transit colors, or plastic gradients; preserve the printed-paper softness.
  • Do not let nostalgia collapse into beige-only layouts; at least one fresh accent should appear in interactive or wayfinding moments.
  • Do not overprint dense Katagami patterns behind small text.

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