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pampam.city. Old explorer's notebook on warm cream.

  • Design tools
  • Light theme
  • 10 colors
  • 3 typefaces

PamPam reads as a warm editorial travel journal translated into a modern app: a soft parchment-cream canvas (#faf2ec) carries the interface, with a custom display serif ('Nineties') giving headlines a vintage-magazine voice against a clean, workhorse Inter body. The palette is nearly monochromatic, leaning on a single muted lavender-gray (#9894a8) for borders, links, and hairlines, and reserving one vivid periwinkle blue (#4b72f3) for the one action that must feel switched on. Surfaces stay flat and paper-like — white cards float on cream, never the other way around, and shadows are whisper-quiet so the maps and illustrations can do the emotional work. Components are compact and confident: pill-ish buttons with generous 16px radii, 12px-radius cards, and tight 12–16px internal padding. Color and weight, not elevation, carry hierarchy.

Screenshot of pampam.city
Captured from pampam.city on October 11, 2026

pampam.city design system

pampam.city

Brand1

  • Violet wash for highlight backgrounds, decorative bands, and soft emphasis behind content. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

Accent1

  • Violet outline accent for tags, dividers, and focused UI edges. Do not promote it to the primary CTA color

Neutrals8

  • Secondary text, icon strokes, and heavy dark surfaces (filled dark buttons, logo marks); used sparingly so Warm Ink remains the default reading color

  • Primary text and headline color — a near-black with a brown undertone that harmonizes with the cream canvas instead of fighting it

  • Input field text and dark-mode form borders on light surfaces

  • Muted helper text, tertiary metadata, and disabled labels

  • Default link color, hairline borders, tag outlines, and decorative strokes — the most-used chromatic neutral; soft enough to never compete with the blue accent

  • Section dividers, subtle background bands, and inactive surface washes

  • Page canvas — the warm, paper-like surface that everything sits on; cards and buttons float above it as white or charcoal

  • Card surfaces, input fields, and dark-on-light icon fills — the only true white in the system, reserved for elements that must lift off the cream

Try a pairing

Pick any two colors from the palette to check whether text stays readable on top.

Aa

Carbon on Periwinkle

5.00 : 1 contrast

Background
Text
  • Body textPasses AA 4.5
  • Large textPasses AA 3
  • StrictFails AAA 7

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