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Soft botanical palettes of cream, sage, moss and berry held under a saturation ceiling, with WCAG-safe variants.
The Cottagecore Palette Generator produces a soft botanical colour set — cream paper, linen, sage, moss, wild berry, clay rose and honey — from a seed word and a season. What makes it read as cottagecore rather than pastel candy is the saturation ceiling: a softness slider caps every colour between 22% and 52% saturation, and the tool reports the mean saturation so the muting is measurable. It also picks the readable label colour for each fill and darkens each accent until it clears the WCAG 3:1 minimum for borders and icons.
Open Cottagecore Palette Generator on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Provide your input — an image, text, or data.
Let the tool analyze or generate the result.
Review, refine, and reuse the output wherever you need it.
The saturation ceiling and the mean saturation are shown as numbers, not left to eye judgement.
Each season shifts hue and lightness — young green in spring, dried grass in autumn, bare stem in winter.
Button label colours are chosen by contrast, and each accent gets a darkened UI-safe twin at 3:1.
A warm off-white or cream base, one or two muted greens (sage and a deeper moss), a soft red-purple berry, a clay or dusty rose, and a honey or wheat warm. Saturation stays low — usually under about 50% — which is what gives the faded, sun-bleached feel.
Contrast depends on relative luminance, and a pale colour on a pale cream background has very little luminance difference. WCAG 2.1 asks for 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, borders and icons; a clay rose on cream often sits near 2:1. Use the darkened UI-safe variant for anything functional and keep the pastel for fills.
Sage is the lighter mid-tone lead colour, around 58% lightness, used for buttons and headings. Moss is the same green family taken down to roughly 26% lightness so it can carry text on cream and anchor footers.
Treat them as a starting point. Screen colour is emitted light and paint or dye is reflected light, so a hex value will not match a swatch exactly — take the hex to a paint mixer or supplier and check a physical sample before committing.