One accent colour is enough

Design14 May 20261 minMohammad Eshaghiyan

A grid of black geometric shapes with a single lime-green triangle

A palette with one accent makes every interface decision easier, because the accent already means something.

Selected, focused, active, next — one colour, four meanings, and no argument about which blue the secondary button should be. Semantic colours still exist for success and error, but they always arrive with a word attached.

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