Palette

Four families, each a ladder of three: a pale tint, the color, and its deep. Butter runs Custard to Toffee, Pink runs Blush to Raspberry, Lilac runs Haze to Violet, Blue runs Ice to Navy. Paper is the one white and Plum the one ink outside the families.

Proportion

Roughly how much of each color appears across a piece. Paper carries most of the weight, the pastels take turns as the surface color, Plum is every word, and Blue appears about once per piece.

Paper
44%
Custard
31%
The rest · 12 colors
25%
Combinations

Pairs live inside one family, and the value gap does the work: tint ground with the deep on it, deep ground with the tint or the color on it. Hue never changes within a surface, so nothing can clash, and the families take turns across a piece. Plum on Paper stays the reading pair.

Toffee on Custard
Toffee on Butter
Butter on Toffee
Raspberry on Blush
Raspberry on Pink
Blush on Raspberry
Violet on Haze
Lilac on Violet
Navy on Ice
Ice on Blue
Plum on Paper
Pink on Plum
Misuse

Combinations to avoid: pairs that cross families, and rungs that sit too close on the same ladder. If the hues differ or the values nearly match, it is not a Gleam pair.

Butter on Pink
Blue on Lilac
Custard on Butter
Violet on Raspberry
Navy on Blue
Color modes

Each mode suits a medium. RGB gives the brightest Butter and Blue on screen, where this brand lives; CMYK covers everyday printing and will soften them a little, which is expected and fine.

Color mode
Application
Notes
Updated Nov 07, 2026