Armoury

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Cooler steel-gray with calmer saturation for UI

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About Armoury

Armoury is the gray that disappears. Not in the way cool, centered grays fade into the background, but actively, it pulls back, stays out of the way, lets everything else have the room. It's darker than and cooler than , which means it doesn't carry any of the warmth those two trade in. There's almost no brown here. What you get instead is restraint.

This is the color for interfaces that need to get invisible fast: dark mode dashboards, code editors, photography platforms where the work happens and the UI shouldn't compete. Unlike Camo Clay, which anchors things with a little earthiness, Armoury doesn't negotiate, it just recedes. It's darker without being black, cool without feeling sterile. Pair it with bright accent colors and they pop. Pair it with dark type and everything reads clean. It works harder in low-light contexts where you need contrast to feel earned, not given.

The trade-off: against pale backgrounds or light grays, it can feel like a gap rather than a surface. It wants darkness around it to feel intentional.

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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

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5.38:1AAAAA Large

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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4.93:1AAAAA Large

On Gray 900 #18181b

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3.29:1FailAA Large

On Black #000000

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3.90:1FailAA Large

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