February 14, 2024

A Pastel Color Palette


Tags:  #Design, #Etcetera


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I wanted a pastel color palette with 7 colors, one for each day of the week, for LibreOffice Calc around a year ago. After coming across many palettes with 5 colors, I decided to bring together a few colors I saw floating online with inspirations from this pintrest post. Here is the palette in action (looks good with black text):

LightSalmonPink #FF9AA2
Melon #FFB7B2
VeryPaleOrange #FFDAC1
DirtyWhite #E2F0CB
MagicMint #B5EAD7
AeroBlue #C7EEEA
PalePink #FCDCDF

And in LibreOffice Calc:

A screenshot of a spreadsheet on libre office calc showing 7 different faded pastel colors from red to green to blue to purple.

To get this in LibreOffice, create pastel.soc at /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/palette:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- References: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/ 
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors-->

<!-- Inspired by: https://www.pinterest.at/pin/731131320745855559/ -->
<!-- Names from:  https://www.color-name.com/ -->

<office:color-table 
    xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office" 
    xmlns:style="http://openoffice.org/2000/style" 
    xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text" 
    xmlns:table="http://openoffice.org/2000/table" 
    xmlns:draw="http://openoffice.org/2000/drawing" 
    xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" 
    xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" 
    xmlns:meta="http://openoffice.org/2000/meta" 
    xmlns:number="http://openoffice.org/2000/datastyle" 
    xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 
    xmlns:chart="http://openoffice.org/2000/chart" 
    xmlns:dr3d="http://openoffice.org/2000/dr3d" 
    xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" 
    xmlns:form="http://openoffice.org/2000/form" 
    xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script">

  <draw:color draw:name="LightSalmonPink" draw:color="#ff9aa2"/>
  <draw:color draw:name="Melon" draw:color="#ffb7b2"/>
  <draw:color draw:name="VeryPaleOrange" draw:color="#ffdac1"/>
  <draw:color draw:name="DirtyWhite" draw:color="#e2f0cb"/>
  <draw:color draw:name="MagicMint" draw:color="#b5ead7"/>
  <draw:color draw:name="AeroBlue" draw:color="#c7eeea"/>
  <draw:color draw:name="PalePink" draw:color="#fcdcdf"/>
 
</office:color-table>

Thanks to: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-edit-create-colour-palettes/27573/4

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