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Design

Colour

The Cowdi colour palette, usage guidance, and accessible pairings.

Purple is Cowdi's primary colour, gold provides emphasis, and magenta is reserved for the logo. Select any swatch to copy its hex value.

Brand

These values are fixed and reserved for the logo. Do not use them as interface colour tokens.

The Cowdi mark
  • Gold#F6B91CFirst disc
  • Magenta#F63AEDMiddle disc
  • Deep purple#53004FThird disc, and the wordmark

Use the supplied artwork

Do not recolour or recreate the logo from these values. Download an approved logo asset to preserve the exact artwork.

Contrast

These pairings are measured against WCAG 2.1. Body text requires a contrast ratio of 4.5:1; large text requires 3:1.

ForegroundBackgroundRatio
#53004Fwhite14.18AAA
#461A43white14.10AAA
#614075white8.41AAA
white#6140758.41AAA
white#53004F14.18AAA
#53004F#F1D1F510.25AAA
#53004F#F0B01C7.38AAA
#53004F#F63AED4.56AA
white#F63AED3.11Large text only
#F0B01Cwhite1.92Fails

Do not use gold text on white. At 1.92:1, it fails at every size. Use gold as a fill with #53004F text, or use purple on white for the safest default.

On a near-black background, gold provides a 10.31:1 contrast ratio and magenta provides 6.36:1. For dark interfaces, use light purple #C9A6DD in place of the primary purple; it provides a 9.41:1 ratio against near-black.

In code

:root {
  --cowdi-purple: #614075;
  --cowdi-purple-dark: #461A43;
  --cowdi-purple-light: #F1D1F5;
  --cowdi-gold: #F0B01C;
  --cowdi-gold-light: #F1DEA1;
}

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