Sugar on Top · Kit 6

Raspberry Martini

Raspberry Martini. Sleek.

A serious modern cocktail bar. Late evening. One warm thing in a cool room.

See the palette
A single-line martini glass of gin-clear ice, with one raspberry settled in it

The palette

Eight colors. Eight jobs.

Two darks. Two lights. One neutral. Three hues. Each color knows the one job no other color does. Seven are cool. One is warm.

  • 1 · Anchor

    Velvet Anchor

    #13141A

    Deepest cool dark. Identity at rest. The slate floor, the dark silk of the bar back.

    Highlight Tint text on Velvet Anchor · 17.58:1 AAA

  • 2 · Ink

    Ink Slate

    #3A3E4A

    Reading dark. Body text on light grounds. The concrete wall at distance, in shadow.

    Ink Slate text on Highlight Tint · 10.21:1 AAA

  • 3 · Counter

    Cool Jade

    #377067

    The second hue. Captions, secondary UI, the room’s second voice.

    Cool Jade text on Highlight Tint · 5.46:1 AA

  • 4 · Signature

    Raspberry Martini

    #CE2B59

    The ONE warm thing in the room. The drink in her hand, lit from across the bar.

    Highlight Tint text on Raspberry Martini · 4.88:1 AA · Raspberry Martini text on Velvet Anchor, large only · 3.60:1

  • 5 · Bridge

    Bridge Mist

    #9F9295

    Borders, dividers, metadata. It whispers the raspberry’s hue-family without saying it aloud.

    Bridge Mist text on Velvet Anchor · 6.14:1 AA

  • 6 · Spark

    Icy Spark

    #8CC9DD

    The glint off the chrome shaker. Decoration and accent only on light grounds.

    Icy Spark accent on Velvet Anchor · 10.08:1 · never text on Surface Tint or Highlight Tint

  • 7 · Surface

    Surface Tint

    #EDE8E9

    Warm-leaning page ground. The warm whisper in the ground.

    Ink Slate text on Surface Tint · 8.80:1 AAA

  • 8 · Highlight

    Highlight Tint

    #F9FAFA

    Coolest near-white. Card backgrounds, maximum-light contexts.

    Velvet Anchor text on Highlight Tint · 17.58:1 AAA

What’s inside

Not a swatch card. A world you operate.

Most brand kits tell you what your colors are. This one tells you what they’re for.

  • Color Palette

    Eight colors, eight jobs, hex codes and the contrast for every pair you’ll use. The temperature story explained.

  • Typography System

    Cormorant Garamond and Inter. Scale, weights, and the em-line rule: an italic in a headline is where the raspberry enters the type.

  • Brand Board

    Palette and type in one view. The room at a glance, with the one warm thing where it belongs.

  • Social Headers

    Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest. One raspberry accent line as the warm mark. No warm overlays.

  • Link-in-Bio Page

    The cool room in mobile format. One raspberry button.

  • Color Combinations Cheat Sheet

    Safe pairings, fail states, and the DNA rule in one sheet.

The materials

This kit isn’t dressed like a cocktail bar. It is one.

The walls are concrete. The bar surface is chrome and slate. Gin-clear ice in the glass. And one raspberry.

  • Chrome

    The bar surface. The glint off the shaker.

  • Slate

    The slate floor, the dark silk of the bar back.

  • Gin-clear ice

    Hard-edged and clear. The rim catching light.

  • Concrete

    The walls. Cool, matte, and in shadow at the far end of the room.

  • Raspberry

    Solid, never a wash. The raspberry is placed; it doesn’t bleed.

“The woman who walked in already knew what she’d order before she sat down.”

Raspberry Martini · Sugar on Top