Tempered Basin color palette — #E5F1F1 · #8DB6DA · #396AA3 · #004B67 · #192D51

Built around Slate, softened by Navy — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Cream (#E5F1F1): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Sky (#8DB6DA): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Slate (#396AA3): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Navy (#004B67): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Navy (#192D51): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Basin 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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• Patina Study color palette (#F5EDE5, #A4C9EA, #6783CC, #006A77, #2D2553)
• Lagoon Market color palette (#EEF8F5, #A5CCD9, #008894, #006157, #00424E)
• Muted Denim color palette (#DEEDEB, #66ABB5, #006273, #003E3D, #00242F)
• Powdered Drift color palette (#ECF0E5, #ADD8FF, #5DA7FF, #0089BA, #1B2D4F)
• Muted Lagoon color palette (#DFF0ED, #468D93, #00454E, #002220, #000B10)
• Tempered Fern color palette (#C8F8F1, #98D1AA, #60B19B, #45621D, #003D3B)
• Soft Olive color palette (#E8F2E2, #447C00, #006C70, #6D4100, #112502)

Browse the whole catalog at Explore, or see today's palette.