Lightbi Palettes

About

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Palettes you can live inside

Most palette galleries show five colour chips and leave the rest to your imagination. That’s the hard part, though: how does a colour feel behind a long paragraph, inside a code block, on a button, or next to a particular font?

Arctic

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Pale ice-blue greys keep the page bright without the glare of pure white, slate text stays crisp, and a fjord blue does the work of links and buttons. Manrope is used for both headings and body, a single family that switches from friendly to formal through weight alone.

Code

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Inspired by today’s pastel editor themes. The blue-violet base is easy on the eyes for long sessions, lavender text stays readable, and mauve marks active elements. Fira Code runs through headings and body for a full-terminal feel, ligatures included.

Credits

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Fonts

Every font on this site is self-hosted: no requests go to Google or any other font service. Fonts marked Fontsource were downloaded from Fontsource and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. A copy of each licence sits next to the font files in /fonts/.

Dark

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Pure black is harsh on the eyes, so this palette starts from a deep charcoal and lifts cards one step lighter. Body text is a soft off-white rather than pure white to reduce glare, and a warm coral accent carries the Light palette’s personality into the dark.

Dune

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Colours lifted from a desert afternoon: sand-coloured backgrounds, burnt sienna for links and buttons, and a dusty sage as the cooling second accent. DM Serif Display gives headings a soft, high-contrast elegance, and DM Sans pairs with it naturally.

Forest

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Everything here comes from a forest floor at dusk. The pine-green background is dark but never black, sage text feels like morning mist, and amber is the single shaft of sunlight. Cinzel’s carved Roman capitals give headings an old-world gravity, softened by Inter for body text.

Kasavu

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Kasavu is the cream handloom cloth of Kerala, edged with a band of gold zari and worn for Onam, weddings and temple festivals. This palette keeps that restraint: an unbleached cream page, deep ink text, and gold used only as a border. The gold is darkened for links so it stays readable, and a temple-lamp maroon is the second accent. Cormorant Garamond’s delicate serifs suit the occasion.

Light

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A white canvas lets the content lead. Warm off-white cards add just enough separation, and one red accent marks the links and actions so the reader always knows where to click. Libre Baskerville gives headings a bookish voice, while Geist keeps body text calm and modern.

Monsoon

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The south-west monsoon arrives in Kerala every June: slate-grey skies, rain on red-tiled roofs, paddy fields so green they almost glow. The page is a rain-cloud slate, the accent is that electric paddy green, and marigold, from the flowers that survive every downpour, is the warm counterpoint. Fraunces headings bring a literary warmth.

Mountain

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Cool granite tones and glacier highlights. Slate containers frame content like carved rock, while glacial teal marks the path. Outfit’s geometric shapes echo ridgelines, and Inter keeps paragraphs clear and neutral.

Newsboard

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A tribute to the early-web aggregators: zero ornament, maximum information density. Safety orange works as a fill colour, while a darker burnt orange is used for link text so it still passes contrast on cream. Verdana is a system font, so this palette loads no web fonts at all.

Newsprint

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A broadsheet translated to the screen. High-contrast Playfair Display headlines do the shouting, Source Serif 4 carries dense body copy comfortably, and a deep masthead red is used sparingly for links and section markers. White cards sit on a newsprint grey like clippings on a desk.

Ocean

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A deep-water navy keeps the page immersive, while two warm-and-cool accents, coral and lagoon teal, give products and calls to action somewhere to shine. Space Grotesk adds a technical, slightly quirky voice to headings, and DM Sans keeps body copy friendly.

Paper

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Inspired by old manuscripts and well-loved paperbacks. The cream background is gentler than white during long reading sessions, ink-brown text keeps contrast high without feeling harsh, and terracotta brings a touch of fired clay to links. EB Garamond and Lora are both designed for long-form text.

Sakura

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Cherry-blossom season in a palette. The faintest pink replaces white, plum-brown text keeps it grounded, and a deep blossom rose is used for links and buttons. Leaf green is the quiet second accent. Fraunces brings soft, old-style curves to headings, and DM Sans keeps reading easy.

Terminal

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Monochrome phosphor on black, the look of the first computer screens. Everything is green except amber, which is kept for the rare moment something needs real attention. JetBrains Mono everywhere, with no exceptions.