Retro 70s Color Palette

Updated June 10, 2026

A groovy retro 70s color palette — mustard, avocado, burnt orange, and brown. Hex codes for vintage branding and nostalgic designs.

A retro 70s color palette captures Cream, Mustard, Burnt Orange, and 3 more coordinated tones — ready-to-copy hex codes for web design, branding, UI themes, and creative projects.

The Retro 70s Palette

• Cream #F7E7B4 rgb(247, 231, 180) hsl(46, 81%, 84%)
• Mustard #E8A33D rgb(232, 163, 61) hsl(36, 79%, 57%)
• Burnt Orange #BC5A1F rgb(188, 90, 31) hsl(23, 72%, 43%)
• Chocolate #7B3F00 rgb(123, 63, 0) hsl(31, 100%, 24%)
• Avocado #A3B18A rgb(163, 177, 138) hsl(82, 20%, 62%)
• Olive #606C38 rgb(96, 108, 56) hsl(74, 32%, 32%)

Hex Codes at a Glance

#F7E7B4, #E8A33D, #BC5A1F, #7B3F00, #A3B18A, #606C38

How to Use This Palette

• In CSS: Paste each hex into your :root custom properties or directly into background-color / color declarations.
• In Figma or Sketch: Copy the hex into any fill or stroke color field. Save each color to your local style library for reuse across frames.
• In Tailwind CSS: Add each hex to your tailwind.config.js file inside theme.extend.colors, then use classes like bg-palette-500.
• In Procreate or Photoshop: Create a new swatch set and paste each hex value. PhotoTones Pro exports ready-to-import .swatches and .ase files, plus brand kit ZIPs with design tokens and Figma JSON.

Build Your Own Palette

This retro 70s palette is one of many themed palettes in the PhotoTones gallery. To build a palette from your own photo, use the free PhotoTones color palette from image generator — it extracts up to 12 hex codes per image in under a second, entirely in your browser. No signup required.

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