Palettes and numbers

Click a colour to copy its hex. The same numbers are in tokens.json.

The family

Hold in every zone, inside and outside.

The four glow colours

Together at most 10 % of a frame. Each zone owns one by the compass rule: north ember, west cyan, south gold, high violet.

Inside the wall (the rulebook's palette)

Outside the wall (the rulebook's palette)

Across the seam

What flips at the gate arch.

Zone palettes

Limits for a frame

Measured on display luma and sRGB. Where a zone sets its own value, the zone wins.

What	Limit
Pixels under luma 0.08	at most 3 % of a daytime frame, 8 % at night
Pure white or black	none; darkest is #1F3A44 or #2B2447, lightest #FFF4DC
Glow colours	at most 10 % of a frame, all four together
Detail finer than 1 % of the screen height	only at the frame's one focal point
Ornament	at most 5 % of a frame; one ornament per building or prop cluster
Bevel on edges within reach	at least 8 % of the part's smallest dimension, both sides of the wall
Inside: curved share of a silhouette	at least 70 %
Inside: roof sag	ridge 3 to 8 % of its length lower in the middle
Inside: sky share at eye height	at most 30 %
Inside: far view	closed within 150 m
Inside: median luma, villages	0.38 to 0.55
Inside: mean saturation	0.40 to 0.50
Outside: mean saturation	at most 0.38 (Sormarka evening and Alvheim glow at most 0.46)
Outside: depth layers	three: a near frame in the zone's darkest tone, a lit middle, a far layer within 15 % luma of the sky
Outside: sky share at eye height	25 to 50 % (Fjellfoten: none)
Outside: scale	one thing at least 10 times her height, and one small sign of folk
Outside: horizon	one side of the frame runs to a horizon at least 300 m off
Outside: lean	2 to 8 degrees on silhouettes above 2 m
Outside: shade floor	darkest band at luma 0.19
Outside: brush	a stroke is 1 to 3 % of a texture's width; three tones, hard edges
Outside: key colour	one key colour takes half to two thirds of the frame
Soft border between zones	80 m deep (60 to 120 m), about 20 s at a walk
Threshold into a place	15 to 30 m
Hard seam at the gates	40 m, measured from the wall's outside face

Folk

One design for human folk in the whole game (decided 2026-10-01): the outside design. Inside the wall the zone's clothes and the ornament rule make the difference, not the body.

	Human folk, inside and outside	Elves of Alvheim (own book)
Grown-up	4.5 heads tall (4 to 5), stocky: a large head, a short neck, a long body, short strong legs	5 heads; the queen 5.5
Child	3.5 heads	3.5 heads
Height in the game	1.45 to 1.8 m	1.75 to 1.9 m; the queen 1.95 m
Each eye	at least 1/5 of the face's width, with strong expressive brows	a quarter of the face's width, whites visible
Face	a nose with a shape, a smile, brows that act	star-freckles, leaf-shaped ears
Paint	three flat tones with hard edges, brush planes visible, thin coloured line; painted light from above and in front	the same brush; the book's own glow rules
Colour inside the wall	lighter and warmer: the zone's palette (cream, honey, butter, yellow-green, rose, sky blue), one small accent
Colour outside the wall	one colour of their own per figure from the zone's palette and one small glowing accent (a lantern, a buckle)
Ornament on clothes	inside: one painted rosemaling band; outside: one woven or carved geometric band	one woven rose band in the elf's glow colour
The princess	1.2 m, 3 heads: the game's own model, not redesigned	not redesigned

Buildings

	Inside the wall	Outside the wall
Proportion	width to height 1 : 0.9 to 1.1	height at least 1.4 x width, or length at least 2.5 x height; never square
Roof	45 to 55 % of the height, sags	pitch 50 degrees or more
Lean	0 degrees	2 to 6 degrees, away from the zone's wind
Foot	round honey stones, up to 1/6 of the wall	cold grey stone, at least 1/5 of the wall's height
Door	round-topped, 1.3 x the princess's height	plank door, never hanging open on darkness
Windows	every window lit	exactly one warm window toward the nearest way, visible from 60 m at night
Ornament	one painted rosemaling, on the door or the sign	one carved ornament in the gable, unpainted
Darkest wall tone	no rule beyond "no black"	not below luma 0.15

One rule per village

Village	Shape	Roof	Wall	Colour	Detail
Solengen	low dome	turf	cream plaster, timber frame	sky-blue doors	flower tubs, bunting
Møllebakken	tall gable	red tile	half-timber	blue frames	awnings, signs
Vassenden (Nordalen)	tall narrow	turf on tarred planks	upright planks on stone	slate teal	nets, creels, a boat
Sørgården (Sørmarka)	long low	turf or shingle	red boards on stone	barn red, cream house	hay racks, fences
Fjellfoten's huts	low heavy	turf	silver-grey logs	grey	woodpile, hides, an axe in a stump
Fjellet	stacked	stone slab	dry stone	rock grey	flag, lantern
Alvheim	round, in a tree	living wood	bark, moonstone	silver	rune light, hanging lanterns

Grass by zone

Body is the meadow's colour in the ground and a tuft's foot: from the zone cards, where they give one. Tip, height, density and lean are the grass portfolio's; its tips were built on the earlier palettes, so check them on a still. Density is tufts a square metre at full vegetation (0.65 of that on the iPad). Lean is the permanent tilt downwind as a share of height.

Zone	Body	Tip	Height (m)	Density	Lean	Drifts of flowers	Signature
Inside the wall (Hjemdalen)	#6DB33F	#A4CF52	0.20 to 0.38	4.0	0	1.4 to 3 m radius, on a 6 m grid, 80 % of cells	daisies, lupin, buttercup, harebell, red clover
Nordalen	#6F9A55	#8C9A52	0.35 to 0.60	4.0	0.15	5 to 12 m on a 24 m grid, 45 %	globeflower (gold), harebell; cotton grass at the shore
Fjellfoten	#4F7A3A	#7E9060	0.25 to 0.45	3.2	0.08	3 to 7 m on a 20 m grid, 35 %	harebell in the sun, wood sorrel, foxglove in threes; ferns and moss carry the old wood
Sørvika	#9AA66A	#A3AD78	0.30 to 0.50; marram 0.75 to 1.20	3.0	0.30	6 to 14 m on a 20 m grid, 70 % (Blomsterenga)	marram on the crests, thrift in the lee
Sørmarka	#55703A	#B09A4A	0.45 to 0.70; pasture 0.12 to 0.20	4.4	0.12	4 to 10 m on a 22 m grid, 40 %	buttercup and clover as dabs; poppy and cornflower within 4 m of a wall or a way
Fjellet	#6E7448	#A39258	0.10 to 0.22	1.6	0.40	0.8 to 2 m on an 8 m grid, 30 %, only on gentle slopes	moss campion, mountain avens, cotton grass
Alvheim	#2F5D58	#7FCDB6	0.20 to 0.35, width x 0.6	2.0	0	ribbons 1.3 to 5 m from a way, rings 2 to 4 m round the old trees and the well	elf bell (cyan), elf star (violet), glowing

The ten zones

Zone	Side	Value key	Shape motif	Glow
Solengen	inside	0.38 to 0.55	the bread loaf: a low dome on a round foot	none that glows by day; butter-yellow windows and lanterns
Møllebakken	inside	0.35 to 0.52	the tall gable and the turning wheel	none that glows by day; striped awnings
Skumleskogen	inside	0.22 to 0.36	the spiral	mushroom teal and the skumlinger's yellow eyes
Kysten	inside	0.50 to 0.68	the scallop and the wave arc	none that glows by day; coral stripes
Sørvika	outside, look 0.85	0.52 to 0.70	the wind-leaning crescent	gold: sparkle on the sea, the lamp at Havporten
Sørmarka	outside	0.30 to 0.46	the long low line and the row	gold: the sun stones, lamplight in the barn
Fjellfoten	outside	0.24 to 0.38	the huge trunk and the hunched round back	cyan: glowing mushrooms, the trolls' tarn
Nordalen	outside	0.40 to 0.58	the slender upright and its mirror image	ember: the smokehouse, the kiln, the brazier, the lighthouse lamp
Fjellet	outside	0.40 to 0.58	the triangle and the diagonal	ember by day (a lantern, a campfire); the northern lights at night
Alvheim	outside, look 0.6	0.26 to 0.42	the crescent and the pointed leaf	violet and cyan: the moonwell, the runes, the flowers

Animals and creatures

Unchanged by the folk decision: the animal villagers inside the wall (the Tripo cast) and all animals keep their own rules.

	Inside the wall	Outside the wall
Head	half the body's size	a third
Legs	short; at most 1/4 of the height	longer, real joints, still thick
Anything over 3 m	not inside	round back, half-closed warm eyes, closed mouth