Sugar on Top — Salted Caramel
Warm. Come on in.
Something's baking.
Rich, warm, unhurried — the hug you didn't know you needed.
Eight ingredients.
One kitchen.
Everything here was already on her counter. She didn't go looking for a palette — she looked around the room she already lived in.
The Salted Caramel Recipe
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the foundation — Molasses #3D2212 · deep anchor · primary text · where the eye rests
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2 generous parts — Burnt Sugar #A0622E · kit anchor · the warm grounded glow
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a warm surface of — Buttermilk #FBF3E4 · warm carrier neutral · linen, parchment, cookbook pages
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the cool slab — Stone Counter #C9C2B8 · cool carrier neutral · marble pastry slab, slate windowsill
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one sprig — Garden Sage #7A9582 · counterweight + flex hue · the rosemary on the windowsill
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the heirloom detail — Brass Pull #B5894A · metallic gleam · the drawer pull, the kettle, the spoon-rest bowl
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a small piece of — Antique Blue #5C7A8C · saturated cool · the pottery above the sink she didn't choose and now can't imagine without
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the clay vessel — Terracotta Pot #B5673F · saturated warm · the bread bowl, the rosemary pot, the earthenware
Everything you need.
In the order you'll use it.
A complete brand kit — not a color dump. Every file has a purpose.
Color Palette Guide
All eight colors with hex codes, CMYK, RGB — and the story of each one. The palette is the woman, not the name.
Brand Board
Full-palette visual reference — all eight colors in their material context, side by side. Save it, pin it, live in it.
Typography Suite
Fraunces, Lora, Work Sans — the Sunday Kitchen Suite. Instructions for where each font lives and why.
Color Combinations Cheat Sheet
Which colors pair with which, and for what: body text, headers, buttons, backgrounds, accents. WCAG-checked.
Social Header Templates
Four header layouts using your Salted Caramel palette — ready to customize. Warm, not loud.
Link-in-Bio Template
A styled link landing page in your colors. Warm, unhurried, exactly what comes home with you.
Nothing is flat.
Everything is material.
The colors only make sense in context. Here's the context.
Sunday morning. Rich, warm, unhurried. The hug you didn't know you needed.
"Every warm palette needs a moment of cool contrast —
or it collapses into mud."
This is why we named the kit Salted Caramel, not just Caramel. Garden Sage and Stone Counter aren't decorations — they're the structural counterweight that keeps the warm palette from going flat.
"The salt that makes the caramel" is both a flavor principle and a brand principle. A palette that's all warmth, all the time, has nowhere to go. The contrast — the cool herb, the marble slab — is what makes the warmth feel like warmth, and not just beige.
When you use this kit, let Garden Sage do its job. Put it on the windowsill of your Instagram grid. Let Stone Counter carry your coolest section backgrounds. The warmth will sing louder for having somewhere to land between notes.