{
  "title": "Greenlight Palette Study",
  "ask": "Jude's ask, verbatim: \"can you look into what a better color rendering would look like. Mixing black, white, creme, brown, and green. Images will do. You dont need to push it the website.\"",
  "note": "Named hex values pulled directly from generate.js (source generator for palette-study.html). Nothing here is deployed or pushed anywhere -- images only, for a look and a reaction.",
  "variants": [
    {
      "id": "today",
      "label": "Today",
      "description": "the current site -- for comparison",
      "colors": {
        "Ground": "#F7F1E3",
        "Card": "#FFFCF5",
        "Ink (text)": "#2A2420",
        "Gold accent": "#7A5A22",
        "Deep green (ink)": "#0E3D22",
        "Brand green (buttons, lamp)": "#00C753"
      },
      "contrast": {
        "body_text_on_page_background": 13.59,
        "body_text_on_card_background": 14.94,
        "muted_text_on_background": 8.04,
        "gold_accent_text_on_background": 5.63,
        "deep_green_ink_text_on_background": 10.91,
        "raw_brand_green_as_text_on_background": 2.01
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "espresso",
      "label": "Espresso",
      "description": "brown-forward -- the warm coffee-shop version",
      "colors": {
        "Ground": "#2B1C12",
        "Card": "#3C2A1A",
        "Ink (text)": "#F3E6D2",
        "Gold accent": "#E8B563",
        "Green (ink accent)": "#6BE39A",
        "Brand green (buttons, lamp)": "#00C753"
      },
      "contrast": {
        "body_text_on_page_background": 13.35,
        "body_text_on_card_background": 11.09,
        "muted_text_on_background": 8.01,
        "gold_accent_text_on_background": 8.78,
        "deep_green_ink_text_on_background": 10.24,
        "raw_brand_green_as_text_on_background": 7.28
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "night",
      "label": "Night",
      "description": "near-black -- a taste of real dark mode",
      "colors": {
        "Ground": "#0D0D0C",
        "Card": "#1A1917",
        "Ink (text)": "#F5F2EA",
        "Gold accent": "#D9B872",
        "Green (ink accent)": "#4FD47F",
        "Brand green (buttons, lamp)": "#00C753"
      },
      "contrast": {
        "body_text_on_page_background": 17.38,
        "body_text_on_card_background": 15.70,
        "muted_text_on_background": 9.29,
        "gold_accent_text_on_background": 10.23,
        "deep_green_ink_text_on_background": 10.24,
        "raw_brand_green_as_text_on_background": 8.61
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "porcelain",
      "label": "Porcelain",
      "description": "white-forward and airy",
      "colors": {
        "Ground": "#FEFDFB",
        "Card": "#F4ECD9",
        "Ink (walnut brown)": "#3A2A1C",
        "Gold/walnut accent": "#8A6428",
        "Deep green (ink)": "#0E3D22",
        "Brand green (buttons, lamp)": "#00C753"
      },
      "contrast": {
        "body_text_on_page_background": 13.52,
        "body_text_on_card_background": 11.68,
        "muted_text_on_background": 6.72,
        "gold_accent_text_on_background": 5.25,
        "deep_green_ink_text_on_background": 12.09,
        "raw_brand_green_as_text_on_background": 2.22
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "grove",
      "label": "Grove",
      "description": "green-washed neutrals",
      "colors": {
        "Ground (sage)": "#DDE3D2",
        "Card (cream)": "#F4EEDA",
        "Ink (text)": "#2E2A1E",
        "Gold accent": "#7A5A22",
        "Deep green (ink)": "#0E3D22",
        "Brand green (buttons, lamp)": "#00C753"
      },
      "contrast": {
        "body_text_on_page_background": 10.91,
        "body_text_on_card_background": 12.34,
        "muted_text_on_background": 5.72,
        "gold_accent_text_on_background": 4.83,
        "deep_green_ink_text_on_background": 9.36,
        "raw_brand_green_as_text_on_background": 1.72
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "paper-bark",
      "label": "Paper & Bark",
      "description": "high-contrast cream, black type, brown structure",
      "colors": {
        "Ground": "#F8F4E9",
        "Card": "#FDFBF4",
        "Ink (near-black)": "#0E0B08",
        "Structural line (bark)": "#3A2A1A",
        "Deep green (ink)": "#0E3D22",
        "Brand green (buttons, lamp -- used sparingly)": "#00C753"
      },
      "contrast": {
        "body_text_on_page_background": 17.86,
        "body_text_on_card_background": 18.95,
        "muted_text_on_background": 9.10,
        "gold_accent_text_on_background": 8.96,
        "deep_green_ink_text_on_background": 11.18,
        "raw_brand_green_as_text_on_background": 2.06
      }
    }
  ],
  "contrast_methodology": "WCAG relative-luminance contrast ratio; 4.5:1 is the bar for normal body text (AA).",
  "picks": {
    "safe_move": "porcelain",
    "bolder_move": "paper-bark",
    "weakest": "grove"
  }
}