# Terracotta color palette

This palette moves from orange through light orange to pale orange. It darkens and then lightens across a moderate lightness range, combining moderate color with clear contrast. Its balanced and composed character suits brand mood boards and social graphics, especially compositions that need a controlled shift between darker and lighter areas.

- Also called: Monochrome brown, tan and beige linear swatches
- Seed: `kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg`
- Page: https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg?style=linearSwatches&steps=4
- Drawn as: linear swatches, 4 steps, 90 degrees
- Kinds: muted, warm, monochrome
- Hues: monochromatic
- Contrast of its darkest and lightest colors: 5.3 to 1

## Colors

The name most people give each color, and the text color that reads on it with its contrast.

| Stop | Hex | OKLCH | Name | Text on it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | `#9e6846` | `oklch(56.69% 0.0841 52.73)` | Foxfire Brown | white, 4.6 to 1 |
| 2 | `#d3ad86` | `oklch(77.17% 0.0689 66.47)` | Cheddar Biscuit | black, 10 to 1 |
| 3 | `#6a422f` | `oklch(42.13% 0.0634 45.34)` | Aloeswood | white, 8.6 to 1 |
| 4 | `#e4c7ac` | `oklch(84.65% 0.0482 64.36)` | Craft Juggler | black, 13 to 1 |

## CSS

```css
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #9e6846 0.000% 25.000%, #d3ad86 25.000% 50.000%, #6a422f 50.000% 75.000%, #e4c7ac 75.000% 100.000%);
background: linear-gradient(90deg, oklch(56.69% 0.0841 52.73) 0.000% 25.000%, oklch(77.17% 0.0689 66.47) 25.000% 50.000%, oklch(42.13% 0.0634 45.34) 50.000% 75.000%, oklch(84.65% 0.0482 64.36) 75.000% 100.000%);
```

## Keyframes

4 OKLCH keyframes joined by a Catmull-Rom spline. Hue is unwrapped degrees.

| Keyframe | Lightness | Chroma | Hue |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 0.567 | 0.084 | 52.7 |
| 2 | 0.772 | 0.069 | 66.5 |
| 3 | 0.421 | 0.063 | 45.3 |
| 4 | 0.846 | 0.048 | 64.4 |

## In these collections

- [Muted swatches](https://grabient.com/muted-swatches)
- [Earth tone swatches](https://grabient.com/earth-tone-swatches)
- [Brown swatches](https://grabient.com/brown-swatches)

## Other forms

- [JSON](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.json?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [PNG](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.png?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [SVG](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.svg?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [CSS](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.css?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [ASE](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.ase?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [GPL](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.gpl?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [GRD](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.grd?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [Design tokens](https://grabient.com/kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg.tokens.json?style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [Social card](https://grabient.com/api/og?seed=kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg&style=linearSwatches&steps=4)
- [Palettes like this one](https://grabient.com/palettes?q=kUkD0l4hlBjWXPXrkcIg)
- [Guide for agents](https://grabient.com/llms.txt)