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Nature & Earth Color Palettes

Curated nature & earth palettes — each with four to eight complementary colors, hex codes, and RGB values. Sorted by most recently added.

Mesa Verde
Five warm Southwest earth tones from deep terracotta through clay red, mesa orange, golden sand, and desert cream — the layered geology of an American Southwest mesa at midday.
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Taiga
Five muted northern forest tones from near-black boreal shadow through dark spruce, cool lichen gray, birch bark tan, and pale frost — the cool, complex earth palette of the boreal taiga.
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Peat Bog
Five ancient earthy tones from near-black peat through dark bog brown, wet moss green, dried sedge, and bleached pale grass — the saturated, organic earth tones of a northern peat bog.
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Harvest Moon
Six warm harvest tones from dark autumn earth through amber, rising moon gold, and warm straw to pale harvest light — the color of a full moon over autumn fields.
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Cinnamon Trail
Five warm spice tones from dark cinnamon bark through russet, burnt sienna, terra cotta, and pale sand — the color range of ground spice on a dusty trail.
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Glacier Moraine
Five cool stone and ice tones from dark moraine grey through cool slate, glacier stone, pale ice blue, and snowfield white — the palette of a receding glacier.
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Salt Marsh
Tidal flats and cordgrass at low tide — muted marsh green, driftwood gray, reed tan, tidal blue, and oyster white.
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Lavender Fields
Provence in full bloom — wave after wave of deep lavender and pale violet against warm sage green and summer wheat.
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Redwood Forest
Ancient cathedral light filtering through old-growth redwoods — deep bark red, forest shadow, rust fern, and cream lichen.
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Autumn Harvest
Russet, pumpkin, amber, wheat, and cream corn
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Desert Bloom
Sandy earth, dusty mauve, prickly pear pink, and sage
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Foggy Meadow
Storm cloud, dove gray, sage bloom, mist, and linen
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Mossy Forest
Bark, woodland brown, olive moss, fern, sage, and lichen
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Pine and Stone
Deep pine, forest green, needle, warm stone, and granite
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Terracotta Canyon
Canyon red, rust clay, dusty rose, and pale sandstone
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Warm Desert
Apache red, terracotta, tumbleweed, and dusk rose
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Rocky Shore
Wet dark stone through driftwood gray, warm pebble, pale sand, and sea mist — weathered coastal neutral tones for understated, natural design.
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