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Parloa. Warm editorial paper with ink and highlighter.

  • AI
  • Light theme
  • 10 colors
  • 2 typefaces

Parloa uses a warm editorial language: cream paper backgrounds, deep ink-black typography, and a single vivid orange that punctuates like a highlighter. The pairing of a display serif (Exposure30) with a precise grotesque (Geist) gives every screen the cadence of a premium magazine spread rather than a typical SaaS dashboard. Dark navigation and announcement bars anchor the warm cream canvas, while white cards float on that canvas as if pinned to a designer's moodboard. The orange accent never fills buttons — it only outlines, links, and marks icons — keeping the surface warm but the actions grounded in dark fills. The overall feeling is editorial-confidence, not tech-dashboard.

Screenshot of Parloa
Captured from parloa.com on October 11, 2026

Parloa design system

Parloa

Accent1

  • Accent for links, icon strokes, outlined callouts — vivid warm orange that only outlines, never fills, keeping the energy of a marker on paper rather than a UI button

Neutrals9

  • SVG icon fills, pure black instances — used sparingly in vector icons where absolute black is needed

  • Primary text, filled action buttons, dark surfaces — warm near-black replaces pure black so the entire palette feels printed on cream rather than rendered on glass

  • Dark surface accent, input fills — slightly lighter than Ink Black for the announcement bar and secondary dark surfaces

  • Muted text, input borders, heading underlines — warm gray for secondary information that should recede into the paper

  • Secondary border, decorative dividers — warmer than Hairline, used for borders that need slightly more presence

  • Link underlines, card borders, subtle dividers — the lightest warm border, almost invisible against the canvas

  • Page background — the dominant warm neutral that makes the entire site feel like uncoated stock paper rather than a screen

  • Nav bar background, subtle section alternation, heading hairlines — a lighter cream that layers on the canvas without breaking warmth

  • Card surfaces, button text on dark fills — the only true white in the system, reserved for elements that need to lift off the warm canvas

Try a pairing

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

Aa

Charcoal on Highlighter Orange

7.90 : 1 contrast

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

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