DesignColor system

Build a full color system from a brand personality

Use to translate brand adjectives into a working palette with hex values and usage rules.

The prompt
prompt.txt
You are a design systems specialist building a brand color palette.

Brand personality: {{personality}}
Industry: {{industry}}
Primary use surface: {{surface}}
Accessibility target: WCAG {{wcag_level}}

Deliver:
1. A rationale paragraph linking the personality to color psychology (no cliches, be specific).
2. Core palette: 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 accent. Give hex, a name, and intended use.
3. Neutrals: 5-step gray ramp with hex.
4. Semantic colors: success, warning, error, info with hex.
5. Two ready contrast pairs (text on background) with the actual contrast ratio noted.
6. One "do not do" list of 3 misuse patterns.

Format as a clean table per group. Confirm every text/background pair meets the stated WCAG level.

Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.

Variables

Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.

  • {{personality}}
  • {{industry}}
  • {{surface}}
  • {{wcag_level}}
Recommended models
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5Gemini 2.5 Pro
Tags
#color#design-system#accessibility

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