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Colour.

The Trackday palette is locked. Three brand colours. One sanctioned gradient. Everything else is theme surfaces, state colours, or forum tags.

Brand colours

Three colours carry brand meaning.

Trackday Blue

--td-blue

Hex
#1B459C

PMS
293

Brand bar gradient start. Hero accents. Deep brand voice.

Trackday Cyan

--td-cyan

Hex
#06B6D4

Reference
cyan-500

Primary accent. CTA fill. Focus ring. Active state.

Trackday Cyan Light

--td-cyan-light

Hex
#67E8F9

Reference
cyan-300

Bright accent. Gradient end. Status highlight. Subhead colour.

Gradients

Four gradients, each with a single use.

Brand · 90 deg

g-brand-90deg

The single brand signature. Blue to cyan, left to right. Used on the brand bar on every Trackday surface. Buttons use the CTA variant below.

brand bar

Stat · 180 deg

g-stat-180deg

Cyan to cyan-light, top to bottom. Used as text-fill for stat numerals inside cyan-bordered cyan-tinted cards. Never elsewhere.

Stat numerals
In cyan-tinted card

CTA · 90 deg

g-cta-primary

Blue to cyan-deep #0E7490, left to right. The brand gradient stopped short so a white label reads at 5.4:1 across the whole button. Full cyan under white text measures 2.4:1. Primary buttons and checklist ticks.

Primary CTA
Checklist tick

Section · 180 deg

g-section-180deg-fade

Section-divider fade. Cyan to faded blue, top to bottom. Used only on L02 big-num section breaks across the deck system.

L02 big-num
Section breaks

Banned. Always.

✕No magenta, the #BB16A3 from the 2023 brief is retired.
✕No orange in any context, brand or otherwise.
✕No pale cyan #99D6EA, replaced by #67E8F9.
✕No white-to-cyan gradient. Title text on dark is solid white.
✕No gradient on body text. Reserve gradient for stat numerals, brand bar, and primary CTAs.
✕No em-dashes in body copy. Use commas, parentheses, or rewrites.
✕No hardcoded hex values outside the locked palette above.
✕No new gradient combinations. The three above are the entire system.

Retired (with reason)

#BB16A3 · TrackDay HIGHLIGHT · PMS 247

Magenta accent from 2023 v1.0 brand document. Retired 2026-05-10. Muddies the blue-cyan axis.

#99D6EA · TrackDay LIGHT · PMS 2975

Pale cyan from 2023 v1.0 brand document. Replaced by the brighter #67E8F9 (Trackday Cyan Light), which is the locked value across all Trackday surfaces.