Think deep shades of burgundy to spice up a more muted butter yellow, or picking a peach that leans a little more terracotta. It's pastel, but punchy. A refined spring color palette means being ...

Maximalist or not, the question 'do yellow and ... to balance the palette and play with light and dark tones." As such potent colors in themselves, considering both yellow and purple as more ...

The combination of pastel yellow, purple, green, pink and blue hits on all of spring's best colors, while the glitter top coat pulls the whole thing together.

Entering that context is Pastel, the latest app from developer Steve Troughton-Smith. Pastel is a color palette utility for the iPad and iPhone that has a Catalyst-powered Mac version coming soon. The ...