| 1 | # Palette: macaron |
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| 3 | Soft pastel, gentle, approachable. The signature palette for education, onboarding, children's content, knowledge cards, and warm friendly explainers. Distinguished by **pastel-tinted** versions of the deck's HEX values on a warm cream field. |
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| 5 | > This file describes **color behavior**, not HEX values. HEX comes from `design_spec.colors`, but rendered as pastel tints. |
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| 7 | ## 1. Compatible renderings |
| 8 | |
| 9 | | Rendering | Notes | |
| 10 | |---|---| |
| 11 | | ✓✓ sketch-notes | Direct alignment — macaron is the default sketch-notes palette | |
| 12 | | ✓✓ flat | Pastel flat blocks for friendly content | |
| 13 | | ✓✓ vector-illustration | Pastel vector for educational warmth | |
| 14 | | ✓✓ watercolor | Pastel washes pair naturally | |
| 15 | | ✓✓ fantasy-animation | Storybook pastels | |
| 16 | | ✓✓ chalkboard | Pastel chalk on dark slate | |
| 17 | | ✓ pixel-art | Pastel retro | |
| 18 | | ✗ tech-neon / dark-cinematic / blueprint | Wrong temperament | |
| 19 | | ✗ corporate-photo | Photography wants natural color | |
| 20 | | ✗ digital-dashboard | Dashboards want vivid not pastel | |
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| 24 | ## 2. Fewshot prompt snippets |
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| 26 | **Snippet A — applied to a sketch-notes infographic** |
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| 28 | > [...rendering paragraph...] Color behavior is macaron pastel: warm cream paper background `#F5F0E8` covers about 50%. Four rounded info boxes filled with soft pastels — light blue (pastel tint of primary `#1E3A5F`), mint (pastel tint of secondary `#F8F9FA` shifted greener), lavender, peach. Each fill has slight hand-painted overshoot beyond its black ink outline. Accent warm coral `#F97316` appears only on one highlighted hand-drawn arrow connecting two boxes (about 6%). Friendly educational temperament. [...container guidance...] |