Pale Archive color palette — #E8F3EA · #5E9AC1 · #0057A7 · #003A44 · #02002E

Built around Cobalt, softened by Ink — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Cream (#E8F3EA): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Slate Blue (#5E9AC1): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Cobalt (#0057A7): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Teal (#003A44): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Ink (#02002E): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Calm, Balance. Tagged coastal, cool, light.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Pale Archive 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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Browse the whole catalog at Explore, or see today's palette.