Sunbaked Clay Palette

Cracked, dried clay ground in full desert sun — pale, chalky, heat-bleached, drier and paler than earthy-terracotta's fired-pottery richness.

#7A5A42

deep dried-clay shadow

HSL 26° 30% 37%

6.2:1 on white

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sunbaked clay

HSL 29° 30% 52%

3.4:1 on white

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chalky clay

HSL 34° 42% 64%

2.2:1 on white

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pale cracked-earth

HSL 38° 53% 77%

1.6:1 on white

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heat-bleached highlight

HSL 38° 59% 88%

1.3:1 on white

Using this palette

Paler and chalkier throughout than earthy-terracotta, which represents fired, glazed pottery clay with more red saturation — this is unfired, sun-dried ground clay, bleached by direct heat rather than kiln-fired, and every swatch here is pulled lighter and grayer to reflect that different physical process. #7A5A42 stands alone as the tone with enough weight for text. Closer in register to sandstone-desert than to earthy-terracotta or clay-and-cream; suited to arid-landscape, pottery/ceramics-in-progress, or minimalist desert branding wanting a drier, more bleached-out clay tone.