Ancient Cerulean color palette — #F8F5EF · #C5DDE9 · #BABEED · #31A2B4 · #5A4558

A conversation between Cerulean and Lavender, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Ivory (#F8F5EF): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Silver (#C5DDE9): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Lavender (#BABEED): A luminous, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.
• Cerulean (#31A2B4): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Charcoal Brown (#5A4558): A full-bodied, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Sophistication, Softness, Clarity. Tagged coastal, cool, light, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Cerulean into a complete token system: semantic roles from primary to success, an 11-stop OKLCH scale per role, a WCAG AA/AAA and APCA contrast matrix, an auto-derived dark mode and 11 export formats including CSS custom properties, Tailwind, Figma Variables and shadcn/ui.

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