Color Palette & System Skill

How this skill behaves (read first)

This is a generative skill. Color has two opposite default failure modes: arbitrary (pick a nice blue, no system, fails contrast) and garish (apply every emotional/cultural association and standout trick → the over-colored "Willy Wonka" palette aesthetics warns about). So this skill gates:

1. Establish brand, audience, and market — these drive the one set of hue/emotion/culture choices worth making.
2. Apply the always-true core — a restrained, role-based, tokenized, accessible palette holds for any product.
3. Make the expressive choices deliberately — surface base-hue/emotion/saturation/dark-mode as gated decisions, not defaults.

Then hand off to the audits: accessibility owns contrast ratios and color-blindness; aesthetics owns harmony and balance.

Step 0 — Establish context before choosing colors