Sugar on Top · Kit 02

Salted Caramel

Sunday morning in a kitchen that actually gets used. Warm, grounded, real — for the brand that feels like coming home.

Everything in the box

What you’re actually getting.

Not just colors. A whole material world — molasses wood, liquid caramel, fleur de sel, buttermilk linen — that you can step into and start using the same day.

The Scene Behind It

A kitchen
that actually
gets used.

A scene, not a painting — built from feeling first.

Sunday morning. The light comes in sideways through old windows. There's a cast-iron pan on the stove, a well-worn cookbook on the counter, and something that smells like brown sugar and butter just crossing into caramel. You know this kitchen. You love this kitchen.

Salted Caramel is for the brand that doesn't have to perform warmth because warmth is just what it is. The dark in this kit is not cold — it is molasses-brown, the inside of an old spice cabinet, wood worn smooth by years of use. The gold is amber glass with honey in it, not metallic, not sharp.

The salt is the whole point. It's the pinch of something unexpected that makes everything taste more like itself. Depth without heaviness. Sweetness with character. This kit is for the person whose brand should feel like your grandmother's kitchen — if your grandmother had incredible taste.

Nothing here is trendy. These colors have been the colors of comfort for hundreds of years. You're not chasing a moment. You're building something that will still feel right in ten years — warm wood, soft linen, amber glass, the smell of something good.

The full eight

Eight colors.
Eight materials.
One palette.

Each one named for what it actually is, because “beige” tells you nothing and Fleur de Sel tells you everything. Nothing here is flat. Everything is edible.

Signature WarmBurnt Sugar#A0622E

That exact moment sugar crosses over into caramel — amber-brown, matte, slightly rough. The color of a handmade ceramic mug that keeps your coffee warm.

Golden AccentLiquid Caramel#E8B960

Molten amber catching light — the moment caramel pours from the spoon. Glossy, golden-brown, alive. The sweetest color in the kit.

Primary DarkMolasses#3D2212

The darkest thing in a spice cabinet — almost-black brown with warmth inside it. Never flat, never cold. Dark wood, not dark mood.

Spice Mid-toneCinnamon Dust#C49175

Cinnamon powder on steamed milk foam. The smell of Sunday. A warm terracotta that sits between burnt sugar and cream without fighting either one.

Cool AccentFleur de Sel#D4CFC4

The only cool color in a warm kit — pale mineral gray, the color of salt crystals on a dark surface. The unexpected pinch that makes everything taste more like itself.

Deep MidClove#6B3E26

Rich warm bark. The color of clove and cinnamon sticks before they go in. Deeper than Burnt Sugar, lighter than Molasses — the color the whole spice cabinet agrees on.

Warm NeutralButtermilk#FBF3E4

Linen that's been washed a hundred times. Warm, not stark — the color of old recipe cards and well-loved cookbooks. The cream that holds everything else.

HighlightWhipped Cream#FFFAF2

The lightest possible warmth. Almost-white with the faintest cream undertone — like a dollop of fresh whipped cream before it dissolves. The softest surface in the kit.

The Sunday Kitchen Suite

Three fonts.
One suite.

Fraunces commands. Lora warms. Work Sans clears the table. Three fonts that feel like a kitchen at different hours of the day. All three are free Google Fonts, forever yours.

Headline · Fraunces 700 (optical size variable)
Sunday morning.
Fraunces 700, 72pt · Molasses
Subhead · Lora 400 italic

The warmth between the headline and the work. Lora in italic has the quality of handwriting that got very good — practiced, natural, genuinely warm without being precious.

Lora 400 italic, 28pt · Clove on Buttermilk
Body · Work Sans 300–400

Work Sans earns its name. At 300 weight it steps back — the words matter, not the font. At 400 with a little tracking it becomes a clean, grounded caption voice. Not invisible like Inter, but present in a quiet way, like someone who knows when to talk and when to listen.

Work Sans 300, 16pt · Clove on Buttermilk
The rule:
Fraunces commands. Lora warms. Work Sans clears the table. Never make them compete.

How to use them

Color in context,
never in isolation.

A color swatch on white tells you nothing. What matters is how a color behaves next to other colors. These are the signature pairings — the combinations Salted Caramel was built for.

The Signature
Molasses & Honey
Sunday Light
Honey on Linen
Amber & Warmth
Honey on Molasses
Soft & Sweet
Whipped & Cinnamon
The Warm Middle
Burnt Sugar & Clove
Depth & Spice
Clove on Molasses
Take it Home

Your brand should feel
like somewhere
people want to stay.

Salted Caramel is for the brand that doesn’t perform warmth — it just is warm. The kit is available now. If you want a custom kit built for your world, or if you’d like Emmy to translate Salted Caramel into a full website — that’s available too.