Halloween color palettes
Six schemes, five colors each, every hex a click away. Ordered dark to light.
Halloween is the one theme here where a near-black is not optional: it is the ground the whole palette is built on, and the difference between a good scheme and a costume-shop one is usually what that black is doing. A flat #000000 kills everything next to it. A very dark plum, ink blue or brown-black gives the orange something to react against and makes the palette feel designed rather than defaulted.
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Classic
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Gothic
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Poison
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Harvest
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Blood moon
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Fog
Orange on black is the signature pairing and it is also, conveniently, a strong one: a #FF7518 on a #0D0D0D clears AAA comfortably, so you can set real text in it. Purple on black is the pairing that catches people out: it is usually somewhere near 2:1 and needs lightening well past where it still looks gothic before it becomes readable. Use purple as a fill and orange as the ink, not the other way round. If the design has to stay usable after the campaign ends, build it on the harvest row instead, which is the only one here that does not read as a holiday out of season.
Other palettes.
Same format, different mood. Every hex on every one of them copies in a click.
- Fall color palettes Rust, ochre and oxblood, each row anchored by one genuinely dark brown.
- Winter color palettes Two families that behave nothing alike: quiet blue-grays, and forward jewel tones.
- Spring color palettes Fresh greens and blossom pinks, kept from going saccharine by one dark leaf green.
- Summer color palettes Sea blues, sun yellows and coral, with a deep blue doing the structural work.
- Pastel color palettes Soft schemes that each break the pastel rule once, because five pastels have no hierarchy.
- Neutral color palettes Warm and cool neutrals. Not gray: every color carries the same faint hue bias.
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