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5 COLORS · Dunhuang · Silk Road · Heritage
DESIGN PALETTE · EXPORT READY
DESIGN PALETTE · EXPORT READY
Dunhuang Silk Road
敦煌丝路
For cultural exhibitions, silk scarves, and tea gifts — mineral greens, azurite, and ochre echo Dunhuang mural surfaces
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EXPORT VALUES
Recommended ratio
60 / 25 / 10 / 5
Use the primary and light colors for most surfaces, reserve the accent for conversion points, and keep dark colors for typography or depth.
Use it for
- +Hero sections, package covers, social cards, and campaign key visuals.
- +Design systems that need a culturally specific but still usable palette.
- +AI image prompts, Figma variables, CSS tokens, and brand moodboards.
Avoid
- —Using all five colors at equal weight; the result will feel noisy.
- —Putting low-contrast color pairs directly on text-heavy UI.
- —Treating the palette as historical proof; it is a design template, not a scholarly claim.
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