Spiced Chai Palette

Chai simmering with cinnamon, cardamom, and milk — warm spice-brown with a genuine cream-milk highlight, not a plain coffee ramp.

#3D2418

cinnamon-bark dark

HSL 20° 44% 17%

14.3:1 on white

#6B3E23

spiced tea brown

HSL 23° 51% 28%

9.0:1 on white

#A9713F

chai-with-milk mid-tone

HSL 28° 46% 46%

4.1:1 on white

#D9A66B

steamed-milk gold

HSL 32° 59% 64%

2.2:1 on white

#F2E4D0

cream foam

HSL 35° 57% 88%

1.3:1 on white

Using this palette

Warmer and more orange-shifted than coffee-and-cream or espresso-cream, since black tea steeped with cinnamon and cardamom genuinely reads more amber-red than straight coffee's cooler, more neutral brown — the spice content is what earns this its own palette rather than being a coffee-family repeat. Cream text holds up fine set against #3D2418 or #6B3E23. Suits tea/café branding wanting to differentiate visually from coffee-forward competitors, or warm, spice-market editorial content; distinct enough in undertone from honey-amber and saffron-spice despite sharing the general warm-orange family.