color-palette-brieflisted

# Color Palette Brief ## What This Skill Does Generates a detailed color palette brief with named colors, hex codes, rationale, and usage guidance for a media project's visual identity — show artwork, editorial imagery, website, or social media. ## When To Use This Skill - You are establishing the visual identity of a new podcast, YouTube channel, newsletter, or publication and need to define a color system - You want to brief a designer on the color direction for a project with enough specificity that they can build the palette without a conversation - You need to maintain color consistency across AI-generated images, social posts, and designed assets - You have a vague color direction in mind ("something warm and earthy") and need it translated into specific, usable values ## What You Need To Provide **Required:** - Project name and a brief description of what it is - The emotional tone and personality of the project (how should it feel?) - The audience (who is it for?) **Optional:** - Any colors you already know you want (even approximate — "a dark teal," "a warm off-white") - Named reference brands, publications, or shows whose palette you want to approach or diverge from - The platform(s) where the palette will be used (web, print, video, social media) - Whether you need dark mode and light mode variants - Any colors to avoid and why ## How the Assistant Approaches This 1. Derives the palette from the project's personality and audience: what colors communicate the r