Clean slate colour palette: fresh-start hex codes for your planner

Slate, sage, mist and paper. A quiet palette for the first week of the year, when you’d like less of everything.

Where each colour goes

Colour	Hex	Use it for
Work (slate)	#2F3E46	Work blocks, in a dark slate
Health (sage)	#84A98C	Walks and fresh air, in a soft sage
Personal (mist)	#CAD2C5	Evenings and weekends, in a pale mist
Goals (paper)	#F6F4EE	Your goals for the year, on clean paper white
Accent (slate)	#2F3E46	Buttons, today’s date and highlights
Protected time (paper)	#F6F4EE	A soft wash over your protected time

Calm colours for a fresh start

Nothing here is bright, and that’s the point. Slate gives the week some structure, sage adds a little life, and the two pale colours leave room. A new year’s calendar fills up fast enough without the colours shouting too.

Your week in clean slate

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 first week, kept simple

• Clear the desk. Everything off, then put back only what you use.
• Pick three things for January. Not thirty.
• Put the first step of each on the calendar.
• Leave the weekend empty. The year is long.

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

3 priorities. Lots of buffer. That’s the schedule. The Low-Overwhelm Day is a free schedule template you can add to your calendar or preview in Anser.

Use this in Anser

The Low-Overwhelm Day

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

Add to my week: The Low-Overwhelm Day

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