Botanical Herbarium
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Pressed flora · Vintage herbarium · Walnut ink

Pressed sage on vintage linen canvas

A quiet, historical theme themed around dried botanical illustrations. Soft linen canvases, pressed sage leaves, walnut ink lines, and elegant editorial serifs.

Lifestyle & Organic Editorial & Literary Minimal & Brutalist

Accent roles

Each accent has a specific role in the design language. Click any swatch below to copy its hex value.

Pressed Sage
#2D5A27
Primary text highlighting
Dried Lavender
#7851A9
Decorative links, tags
Walnut Ink
#78350F
Dividers, lines
Linen Canvas
#E6D9CC
Soft canvas backgrounds

Color palette

Click any swatch to copy its hex value. Accent colors are shared across modes; surface tokens update when you switch between light and dark.

Accent — shared
Surfaces — dark mode

CSS variables

Drop this block into your project's global stylesheet. Includes shared accents plus light and dark surface tokens — toggle data-theme on <html> to switch.


                        

Type scale

Aa
EB Garamond + Spectral
EB Garamond provides historic display serif styling. Spectral handles clean body copy.
DisplayEB Garamond Display
Botanical Herbarium
Heading 1EB Garamond H1
Section title
Heading 2EB Garamond H2
Subsection label
BodyEB Garamond Regular
Use the text token for primary copy and text-mid for supporting paragraphs. Keep line height around 1.7–1.8 for readability in both light and dark modes.
LabelSpectral Medium
Eyebrow · Metadata · Captions

UI patterns

Common building blocks using the palette. Uppercase labels and heavy weight are part of the theme voice.

Buttons

Tags

Accent Neutral Filled

Navigation

Section header

Feature spotlight

Supporting copy sits in text-mid with a short accent rule underneath the headline.

Cards

New 01
Card title

Elevated panel with ember shadow fill and crimson badge accent.

Draft 02
Card title

Hover lifts the card slightly — keep motion on transform only.

Live 03
Card title

Forge background on the card header creates depth without extra imagery.

Design theory

Mathematical color relationships and accessibility validation. Checks compliance against W3C WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios.

Theme Metrics

8
Core colors
4.5:1
Min contrast target

WCAG Contrast Validation

Aa
Primary Text on Bg
Target: ≥ 7:1 (AAA)
Pass AAA
Aa
Body Copy on Bg
Target: ≥ 4.5:1 (AA)
Pass AA
Aa
White Copy on Accent
Target: ≥ 3:1 (UI Component)
Pass AA

Accent Color Spectrum

Visual segments detailing color pairing distribution across accents.

Generates high-contrast analogous and monochromatic relationships to ensure active components are highly visible.

Layout System

Proportional spacing scale guidelines. Built on a modular unit grid to govern container padding, margins, and layout gutters.

Proportional Spacing Scale

--sp-1
4px
--sp-2
8px
--sp-3
12px
--sp-4
16px
--sp-5
24px
--sp-6
32px

Layout Symmetrical Grid

Visual representation of wide-margin gutters and core content boundaries.

Gutter
Max Content Width (1240px)
Gutter
Leverages a symmetrical layout grid to structure blocks. Wide margins ensure high-fidelity reading focus across viewport transitions.

Design principles

Core behavioral guidelines to preserve the design language's integrity when scaling templates.

01
Pressed canvas grids

Center all headings and align grid elements symmetrically to mimic botanical archives.

02
Dried botanical accents

Keep borders tinted with warm pressed sage green and dried lavender flora accents.

03
Walnut ink boundaries

Use thin, sharp rules colored with sepia walnut ink to separate content sections.