Cerulean Courtyard color palette — #F9F4EF · #C9DBE7 · #E3BEDD · #4FA0AB · #5F4453

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

The five colors

• Ivory (#F9F4EF): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Silver (#C9DBE7): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Carnation (#E3BEDD): A whisper-light, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Cerulean (#4FA0AB): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Charcoal Brown (#5F4453): A full-bodied, dusty pink — the color of a candy shop window.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Cerulean Courtyard 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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