One flagship color

What should sit behind the pink?

Strawberry Milk · Approved pink #FBB6CE

Every sample uses the same ink, typography, pink accent, and pure-white interface panel. Only the page ground changes. None of the candidate backgrounds contains a pink tint.

Current / active: Soft white #FEFEFD + Pink only (Strawberry Milk #FBB6CE). View current homepage →

Neutral / no cast

Pure white

#FFFFFF

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Maximum clarity. The pink carries all the color.

Neutral / softened

Soft white

Current / active #FEFEFD

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Current / active. Nearly white, with a trace of warmth and no pink cast.

Warm neutral

Milk glass

#FCFCFA

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A bright warm-neutral that softens the serif without becoming cream.

Warm paper

Pearl

#FAFAF7

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More paper presence, still substantially brighter than the original Chalk.

Cool neutral

Cool porcelain

#FAFCFD

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A faint cool bias that makes the rose accent feel especially crisp.

Neutral stone

Pale stone

#F7F8F7

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The strongest separation from white interface panels without visible color.

Reference

How far we moved

Original Chalk #F8F8F4
Rose-white test #FFFCFD
Soft white #FEFEFD

Direct stress test

Does a second accent earn its place?

These two fragments are identical except for the editorial rules, labels and arrows. Both include the same cool slate transcript so the claim that petrol will be mistaken for interface chrome can be judged on the page rather than inferred from hue angles.

One editorial accent

Pink only

#FBB6CE

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Pink marks, rules and punctuates; near-black carries every load-bearing word. The cool slate remains contained inside the screen sample.

Rejected second accent

Pink + petrol

#174A55

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Rejected

Rejected after direct comparison. Pink remains the sole editorial accent; the cool slate remains confined to the screen-native transcript interface.

What would prove the concern

If the petrol rules visually merge with the transcript’s blue-gray system, or make the boundary between paper and software less legible, the second accent fails immediately.

What petrol must earn

Merely avoiding confusion is not enough. Petrol must make the editorial layer meaningfully richer without weakening pink’s identity. Otherwise the simpler pink-only system wins.