Love Surge
#ce1d51
Primary cherry-red with pink-magenta heat
About Love Surge
Love Surge looks like a fresh stripe of red paint that still has some wet sheen. It's decidedly more pink-leaning than the deeper, cleaner reds around it, so it feels less like a hard stop and more like a live signal. Compared with Electrifying Kiss and Debian Red, it reads smoother and slightly rounder in the midtone, not as sharp or strict.
In practice, I use Love Surge for UI states that need to feel urgent but not furnace-hot: fraud review holds and "record rejected" banners in fintech, payment status alerts in e-commerce admin, and identity verification failure notices in telecom and logistics consoles. It's also strong for onboarding error chips in SaaS where you want people to notice immediately, without the stricter authority you'd get from Debian Red. Think the one you reach for when red should feel direct yet human.
If your background is already warm, watch it can push a bit toward a rosy alert tone, so keep it on crisp near-white panels and let dark neutrals do the grounding.
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On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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