Nature & Earth Color Palettes
Ochre, moss, weathered gray, deep soil brown — these palettes pull their colors straight from the outdoors. Each one pairs four to eight coordinated colors with hex codes and RGB values.
Limestone Bluff
Dark stone, limestone, buff, and chalk — four warm naturals drawn from exposed limestone cliff faces.
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Autumn Bracken
Dark peat through bracken brown, rust orange, ochre, and pale straw — the warm autumn tones of moorland uplands.
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Canyon Ember
Canyon Ember captures the glowing warm tones of sandstone canyon walls at sunset — deep rust, saturated canyon red, burnt sienna, warm sand, and pale bleached dune — the Southwest landscape at its most vivid.
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Volcanic Glass
Volcanic Glass traces the full tonal range of volcanic geology — eight steps from obsidian black through lava rock, warm pumice, pale ash, and ash white, capturing the layered earth tones of an eruption cycle.
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Desert Sage
Sage green, dusty sage, warm tan, sand, and pale desert sky — the quiet palette of the high desert.
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Golden Savanna
Burnt sienna, ochre, golden grass, amber sky, and pale dust — the sun-baked colors of open savanna.
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Dried Wildflower
Dried rose, dusty mauve, wheat, parchment, and faded sage — the muted palette of a pressed flower collection.
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Autumn Spice
A rich autumnal palette of spice-market warmth — cinnamon, turmeric, paprika, and dried chili together with warm cream and dark brown.
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Canyon Dusk
A warm earth-tone palette capturing the last light of day fading over a desert canyon — deep terracotta, rust, sand, and dusty sage under a pink-gold sky.
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Stone and Moss
An understated nature palette that pairs the cool grey of weathered stone with the muted green of forest moss — quiet, natural, and timelessly grounded.
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Mesa Verde
Five warm Southwest earth tones from deep terracotta through clay red, mesa orange, golden sand, and desert cream — the layered geology of an American Southwest mesa at midday.
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Taiga
Five muted northern forest tones from near-black boreal shadow through dark spruce, cool lichen gray, birch bark tan, and pale frost — the cool, complex earth palette of the boreal taiga.
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Peat Bog
Five ancient earthy tones from near-black peat through dark bog brown, wet moss green, dried sedge, and bleached pale grass — the saturated, organic earth tones of a northern peat bog.
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Harvest Moon
Six warm harvest tones from dark autumn earth through amber, rising moon gold, and warm straw to pale harvest light — the color of a full moon over autumn fields.
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Cinnamon Trail
Five warm spice tones from dark cinnamon bark through russet, burnt sienna, terra cotta, and pale sand — the color range of ground spice on a dusty trail.
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Glacier Moraine
Five cool stone and ice tones from dark moraine grey through cool slate, glacier stone, pale ice blue, and snowfield white — the palette of a receding glacier.
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Dry Wash
Dry Wash captures the muted, sun-bleached earth tones of an arid desert drainage — shadowed red-brown desert earth, raw sienna dry ground, warm sandy wash, pale sun-bleached sand, and bleached mineral white where the heat is most intense.
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Fenland
Fenland captures the muted, ancient earth tones of a peat bog and wetland drainage — deep peat brown, fen earth, warm reed orange-tan, golden sedge, and the pale haze of fen grass and dried reed in autumn light.
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Hedgerow
Hedgerow moves through the layered tones of an old English country hedge — deep shadow inside the thicket, classic hedge green, sunlit summer leaf, warm hawthorn berry and bark, and pale dried elder blossom where the season finishes.
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Pine Ridge
Pine Ridge descends into the dark, forest-floor earth of a mature conifer ridge — near-black forest shadow, deep pine needle green, classic pine-needle tone, warm fallen bark brown, and pale weathered bark where older wood bleaches in the wind.
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