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Colours

A monochrome backbone with one emotional accent — the heart green — pounamu. Colour never carries meaning alone: material tiles bring their own category colours, always paired with a glyph and a label.

Core

Neutrals

Black, white, and three greys. The structural palette. Used for type, rules, and surfaces.

Authority Black

#1A1A1A
--color-lyb-black

Primary text, marks, UI foreground on light surfaces.

Clean White

#FAFAFA
--color-lyb-white

Primary surface (light). Body text on dark surfaces.

Grey 100

#F0F0F0
--color-lyb-grey-100

Card and inset surfaces on light backgrounds.

Grey 300

#C4C4C4
--color-lyb-grey-300

Secondary text, hairlines, supporting rules.

Grey 600

#666666
--color-lyb-grey-600

Body text on light surfaces, captions, meta.

The heart

One accent

One brand colour, one meaning: love applied to materials. The same hue is used on light and dark surfaces. There are no status colours — the heart never judges.

Heart

#2D6A4F
--color-lyb-heart

The brand mark and the single emotional accent. Used sparingly — never decoratively, never to carry meaning alone.

6.12:1 on #FAFAFA — WCAG AA pass. On dark surfaces, set the mark on a white inner panel.

Service

Auckland audit — provenance first

Love You Bye treats Auckland Council’s kerbside service colours as the source structure for waste streams. Official digital swatches are only adopted when the source supports them. Until an authoritative spec is published, the taxonomy records the service and its provenance without inventing a value.

Auckland Rubbish

No official digital swatch gathered yet.

auckland-rubbish

General waste and landfill-aligned categories.

Auckland Council's public guidance describes the rubbish bin as a green bin with a red lid, but no reusable digital swatch is published in the source set gathered so far.

Auckland Recycling

No official digital swatch gathered yet.

auckland-recycling

Paper, cardboard, plastics 1/2/5, glass bottles and jars, metal packaging.

Auckland Council public guidance describes recycling collection using green bins with yellow lids, with some areas still using blue bins with yellow lids. Exact reusable digital swatches are still uncollected.

Auckland Food Scraps

No official digital swatch gathered yet.

auckland-food-scraps

Food scraps and organics-aligned categories.

Auckland Council publishes the food scraps service and imagery, but the current official source set does not expose a digital swatch specification suitable for direct token adoption.

Auckland Reuse and Drop-off

No official digital swatch gathered yet.

auckland-reuse-dropoff

Reuse, specialist drop-off, e-waste, and hazardous streams.

Auckland Council distinguishes these services operationally, but the gathered public sources do not yet provide a stable visual token set equivalent to kerbside bin colours.

Auckland Deposit Return

No official digital swatch gathered yet.

auckland-deposit-return

Deposit-return and separate collection schemes.

This stream is retained in the canonical model because the Norwegian pack treats it as a parallel delivery mode, but an Auckland-specific visual token still needs confirmation.

Rubbish bin

Auckland Council's public guidance describes the rubbish bin as a green bin with a red lid, but no reusable digital swatch is published in the source set gathered so far.

Sources

Mixed recycling bin

Auckland Council public guidance describes recycling collection using green bins with yellow lids, with some areas still using blue bins with yellow lids. Exact reusable digital swatches are still uncollected.

Sources

Food scraps bin

Auckland Council publishes the food scraps service and imagery, but the current official source set does not expose a digital swatch specification suitable for direct token adoption.

Sources

Reuse, community recycling, and transfer-station flows

Auckland Council distinguishes these services operationally, but the gathered public sources do not yet provide a stable visual token set equivalent to kerbside bin colours.

Sources

Container return and future deposit-return pathways

This stream is retained in the canonical model because the Norwegian pack treats it as a parallel delivery mode, but an Auckland-specific visual token still needs confirmation.

Sources