Maple syrup colour palette: cosy brown hex codes for your planner

Pancake-morning browns, from butter to dark roast. Every colour comes from the same family, so the whole week reads as calm.

Where each colour goes

Colour	Hex	Use it for
Work (maple)	#A0522D	Work blocks, in the richest brown of the set
Health (pancake)	#D4A373	Walks, stretching and slow breakfasts
Personal (butter)	#EBD9B4	Time with people, and time with nobody
Goals (coffee)	#6F4E37	The project you’re giving an hour to
Accent (dark roast)	#3E2C1F	Buttons, today’s date and highlights
Protected time (cream)	#F6EBD9	A barely-there wash over your protected time

One colour family, four depths

This is a single-hue palette: every colour is a brown, only lighter or darker. That’s why it looks so tidy. The trade-off is that you tell your categories apart by depth, not by colour. So the two you use most sit at opposite ends: Work is the deep maple and Personal is the pale butter. If you’d like more contrast between categories, apple cider adds a red and a green to the same warmth.

Your week in maple syrup

A slow Saturday, written down

• 9am, not 7: pancakes. The alarm stays off.
• Late morning: a walk that ends at a coffee.
• Before noon: nothing else. Leave the gap on purpose.
• One hour in the afternoon: the thing you keep putting off. Then stop.

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.

Free downloads in maple syrup

October and November calendar wallpapers for your phone and desktop, and a printable week in A4 and US Letter.

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

More palettes like this

• Cinnamon & cream
• Apple cider
• 10 more autumn planner palettes

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