Butter yellow colour palette: soft yellow hex codes for your planner

Butter yellow, cream, honey and an olive brown. It’s a sunny palette that stays soft: more morning light than highlighter.

Where each colour goes

Colour	Hex	Use it for
Work (butter yellow)	#FBE89A	Work blocks, in a pale butter yellow
Health (cream)	#FFF6D6	Rest and slow mornings, in cream
Personal (honey)	#E3B95B	The warm one, for friends and good food
Goals (olive brown)	#7C6A46	Your goals, in the one dark colour here
Accent (dark olive brown)	#4F432D	Buttons, today’s date and highlights
Protected time (cream)	#FFF6D6	A soft wash over your protected time

Pale yellows need one dark friend

Butter yellow and cream are both very light, so on their own a week could look washed out. Olive brown is the fix. It’s on Goals, and it also makes the yellows look warmer by contrast. If you’d like Work to stand out more, swap it with the honey.

Your week in butter yellow

The week at the top of this post is a real week in Anser, in the Summer Picnic style with the Bold look for categories, so every event shows its full colour. To get the same look, open Settings › Appearance › Colours › How categories look and choose Bold. The palette works in every style.

A sunny-side-up week

• Breakfast by the window. Even on a weekday.
• Do the hardest thing before noon.
• Call someone who makes you laugh.
• Buy the nice butter. It’s a small thing.

Make it in Anser

The quickest way: tap Use this palette in Anser on the palette. It opens on your own week, to keep or undo. To set it up by hand:

1. In Anser, open Settings › Categories. Tap the colour next to Work and paste its hex code. Do the same for Health, Personal and Goals.
2. Open Settings › Appearance › Colours and tap Save as my palette, so you can switch back any time.
3. Still in Colours, under Accent, choose Your own and paste the accent.
4. Open Settings › Boundaries › How protected time looks, choose Your own and paste the protected time colour. It also colours your Deep Focus time.

Changed your mind? Your saved palettes are under See all in Settings › Appearance › Colours.

Pair it with a calm week

A slow start you can actually keep. The Gentle Morning Routine is a free schedule template you can add to your calendar or preview in Anser.

Use this in Anser

The Gentle Morning Routine

See it on your own week first. One tap to undo.

Add to my week: The Gentle Morning Routine

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