ForgeFX Design System · Palette Disambiguation

One word, two colors: "Ember"

The token --c-ember and a /* ember */ comment on the Gold heat scale pointed at two genuinely different oranges. They are not interchangeable. Decision below: keep the semantic Ember, relabel the heat-scale step.

Keep as Ember Ember

Hex#A03E19

Token--c-ember

FamilySemantic

Destructive / alert / pressed states. A red-leaning brick-orange. Part of the named brand palette; used rarely, with intent.

✓ This stays the one true "Ember."

Relabel → Burnt forge-700

Hex#B3560F

Token--forge-700

FamilyGold heat scale (50–900)

The second-darkest step of the Gold ramp. An orange-leaning burnt gold. It was carrying a misleading /* ember */ comment — but it is not the Ember color.

→ Comment now reads "burnt — darkest gold step; NOT --c-ember."

#A03E19 vs #B3560F — ΔR +19, ΔG +24, ΔB −10. Not a rounding nudge; two distinct hues.

The decision

Ember is #A03E19, period. It lives in the named palette as the semantic destructive/alert color. The Gold heat scale is a separate system — tints and shades derived from Gold #F79321 — and #A03E19 doesn't sit on that ramp at all.

So the /* ember */ comment on --forge-700 #B3560F was just wrong: it implied the heat scale contained Ember when it doesn't. Fix is a relabel, not a recolor — no pixels change, the scale keeps its value, and "Ember" now points at exactly one color everywhere.

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