Sugar on Top · Salted Caramel

Warm. Come on in.

Something’s baking.
Rich, warm, unhurried — the hug you didn’t know you needed.

See the recipe
A kitchen counter in window light: caramel pours from a brass pan into an antique blue bowl on the stone counter, pools, and a few salt crystals land on it. A rosemary pot sits by the window.

The Recipe

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

  • the foundation — Molasses #3D2212 · deep anchor · primary text · where the eye rests
  • 2 generous parts — Burnt Sugar #A0622E · kit anchor · the warm grounded glow
  • a warm surface of — Buttermilk #FBF3E4 · warm carrier neutral · linen, parchment, cookbook pages
  • the cool slab — Stone Counter #C9C2B8 · cool carrier neutral · marble pastry slab, slate windowsill
  • one sprig — Garden Sage #7A9582 · counterweight + flex hue · the rosemary on the windowsill
  • the heirloom detail — Brass Pull #B5894A · metallic gleam · the drawer pull, the kettle, the spoon-rest bowl
  • a small piece of — Antique Blue #5C7A8C · saturated cool · the pottery above the sink she didn’t choose and now can’t imagine without
  • the clay vessel — Terracotta Pot #B5673F · saturated warm · the bread bowl, the rosemary pot, the earthenware

What’s Inside

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.

The Materials

Nothing is flat.
Everything is material.

The colors only make sense in context. Here’s the context.

  • Burnt Sugar

    Matte ceramic glaze. The pour bowl.

  • Garden Sage

    Herb-leaf surface. The windowsill.

  • Buttermilk

    Linen weave. The kitchen napkin.

  • Stone Counter

    Polished marble. The pastry slab.

  • Brass Pull

    Heirloom brass. The drawer pull.

  • Antique Blue

    Crackle pottery glaze. Above the sink.

  • Terracotta Pot

    Unglazed clay. The herb pot.

  • Molasses

    Dark wood grain. The cabinet shadow.

Sunday morning. Rich, warm, unhurried. The hug you didn’t know you needed.

Salted Caramel — Sugar on Top

On the Salt

“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.