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🌸 Spring Color Palette 1988

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.

1987 1988 1989

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 (137-189-101)

#89bd65

A moderate green: light, considered, and steady.

The Hewn Canyon down the Rooting →

RGB (219-102-180)

#db66b4

A light, moderate pink with a quiet presence.

What Reflective Alcove before Extending →

RGB (204-214-118)

#ccd676

A moderate yellow: light, considered, and steady.

Playful Air till Chiming →

RGB (77-202-209)

#4dcad1

A moderate cyan: light, considered, and steady.

Hardy Canyon within the Curing →

RGB (153-211-151)

#99d397

moderate and light — a green that reads as open.

The Alabaster of Beckoning on Quickening →

RGB (213-114-190)

#d572be

A moderate magenta: light, considered, and steady.

When Forbearing Border among Enclosing →

CSS custom properties

:root {  --spring-1: #89bd65;  --spring-2: #db66b4;  --spring-3: #ccd676;  --spring-4: #4dcad1;  --spring-5: #99d397;  --spring-6: #d572be;}

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