Curry

#d6a332

Midtone spice gold-green for balanced accents

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About Curry

Curry sits on my mockups like a fresh squeeze of spiced yellow-green, not a ripe banana gold and not a dusty olive. Compared to 's brighter golden-citrus and that slight orange bite, this one reads cleaner and greener, with less of the ketchup-ish lift. And unlike , which feels darker and more muted, Curry stays lighter and more open instead of settling into that in-between brown-gold territory.

I reach for it when the UI needs a "green-family" accent that still grabs attention fast. Think dashboards and finance apps where you're marking status chips, filter states, and secondary CTAs without turning the whole screen into amber. It also works in ecommerce category badges, CPG shelf tags, and retail admin panels that sit next to true greens but need a shade that stays fresh on white and doesn't feel metallic.

Quirk: it can tip a little loud against very cool off-whites, so I usually anchor it with warmer neutrals or a deeper olive to keep the tone grounded.

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