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Color systems that scale

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Mara Lindqvist

5 min read

A palette is a system, not a swatch.

It’s easy to pick colors that look good on a moodboard. It’s much harder to build a palette that survives dark mode, dense data, accessibility requirements, and a hundred edge cases.


We design color as tokens with clear roles — surface, ink, accent, border — so the system scales gracefully instead of collapsing the moment it meets a real product.

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