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Build deep-neutral palettes with gold accents, audited for WCAG contrast and given a CMYK build and ink-limit check for foil print.
The Luxury Gold Palette Generator builds a six-role colour system — page ground, card surface, gold, gold highlight, champagne and ink — from a chosen metal tone and dark neutral, then audits every text pairing with the WCAG 2.x relative-luminance contrast formula. Each swatch also gets a CMYK build and a total-area-coverage figure so you can see whether it prints inside the usual 300% coated or 260% uncoated ink limit. It is aimed at designers working on packaging, invitations, spirits labels and premium brand sites where the same gold has to survive both a screen and a foil-stamped press sheet.
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Every pairing is scored with the WCAG 2.x formula against the right threshold — 4.5:1 for body copy, 3:1 for display type and UI borders.
Each swatch carries a CMYK build, a total ink coverage figure and a warning when it exceeds the stock's limit.
The variation index steps hue, saturation and lightness by fixed amounts, so the same settings always reproduce the same palette.
Deep, low-lightness neutrals: near-black, charcoal, midnight navy, espresso brown and very dark green. Keeping the ground under roughly 15% lightness lets a mid gold clear the 3:1 contrast ratio WCAG asks for on large text and interface borders, which is what makes the gold read as metal rather than mustard.
Not as metal. CMYK inks are transparent and matte, so a four-colour build gives you a flat ochre with no specular flip; real metallic effect needs hot-foil stamping, a metallic Pantone ink, or a metallic toner press. The CMYK figures here are a usable matte stand-in and a starting point to hand a printer.
Total area coverage (TAC) is the sum of the four ink percentages in a build — a 60/40/40/100 rich black is 240%. Press guidance commonly caps coated sheetfed work near 300% and uncoated near 260%, because beyond that the ink cannot dry fast enough and you get set-off and blocking on the stack.
It depends on the pair, which is why each combination is scored here. A mid-tone gold on near-black typically lands between 6:1 and 9:1, comfortably past the 4.5:1 body-text threshold, but the same gold on a white or light grey page often falls under 3:1 and fails. This tool reports the ratio; treat the result as a design check rather than a full accessibility audit.