Curated palette · Warm earth
Garden Clay.
Terracotta, oat, and walnut. The palette of a courtyard at noon.
The anchors.
Click any swatch to copy. Each anchor carries a fixed role — keep the proportions and the palette holds together.
Dark · 10%
Walnut Shadow
- Hex
- #2E2A24
- RGB
- rgb(46, 42, 36)
- CMYK
- 0 · 9 · 22 · 82
- HSL
- 36° · 12% · 16%
Mid-dark · 20%
Bark Brown
- Hex
- #7A5742
- RGB
- rgb(122, 87, 66)
- CMYK
- 0 · 29 · 46 · 52
- HSL
- 22° · 30% · 37%
Mid · 20%
Terracotta
- Hex
- #C4866C
- RGB
- rgb(196, 134, 108)
- CMYK
- 0 · 32 · 45 · 23
- HSL
- 18° · 43% · 60%
Light · 30%
Oat Sand
- Hex
- #E5C9A6
- RGB
- rgb(229, 201, 166)
- CMYK
- 0 · 12 · 28 · 10
- HSL
- 33° · 55% · 77%
Light · 20%
Linen Cream
- Hex
- #F4EAD8
- RGB
- rgb(244, 234, 216)
- CMYK
- 0 · 4 · 11 · 4
- HSL
- 39° · 56% · 90%
What makes it Garden Clay.
Three measurable properties separate this palette from its neighbours.
Warm undertone
Hue 26° – 35°
Every tone sits inside the orange-yellow band. The palette has zero cool notes — every shadow is brown, never grey.
Medium chroma
Saturation 18% – 45%
Terracotta carries the saturation peak; the rest of the palette is muted enough to support it without fighting.
Even value ladder
Lightness 15% – 92%
Five evenly stepped tones, walnut to linen. The ladder is what lets Garden Clay scale from a label to a wall.
Where it works.
Three registers where the palette earns its place — not every brief wants this palette, and that's the point.
Hospitality & restaurant
Wine bars, bakeries, Mediterranean concepts. The palette reads as natural light and clay without falling into rustic cliché.
Slow lifestyle e-commerce
Ceramics, linen homeware, candles. Use Oat Sand as the surface and Terracotta as the action accent.
Editorial agriculture & food
Magazines, cookbooks, packaging. The palette is photographic — it sits well behind images of bread, stone, and skin.
Pair with — avoid with.
Tones that extend the palette, and tones that break the contract it was built on.
Pair with
#6B7438
Olive Field — the warm-green that fits
#9B5C3C
Burnt Sienna — deeper sister to Terracotta
#D8C3A8
Camel Wheat — softer second surface
#3E2C1C
Coffee Bean — extends the dark ladder
Avoid with
#2962FF
Action blue — wrong temperature, wrong language
#E91E63
Cool pink — blue-pink breaks the warm contract
#7CB342
Apple green — too cool, too saturated
#FFFFFF
Pure white — kills Linen Cream's warmth
Garden Clay — frequently asked.
- What is the Garden Clay palette?
- Garden Clay is a five-tone warm-earth palette built around terracotta, oat, and walnut. Designed for hospitality, lifestyle, food, and photographic editorial work.
- Which hex codes are in the Garden Clay palette?
- Walnut Shadow #2E2A24, Bark Brown #7A5742, Terracotta #C4866C, Oat Sand #E5C9A6, Linen Cream #F4EAD8.
- Is Garden Clay the same as the Soft Autumn palette?
- Related but not identical. Soft Autumn is a wider, more muted system; Garden Clay sits at the more saturated end with terracotta as the centre of mass.
- What pairs well with Garden Clay?
- Olive Field, Burnt Sienna, and Camel Wheat extend the palette inside its warm contract. Avoid action blue and cool pinks.
Related palettes.
Neighbours worth knowing before you commit.
Take it with you.
Copy Garden Clay in one click — or open the encyclopedia for the season palettes built around the same tones.