Ancient Iris color palette — #EDDCE1 · #9FC4E9 · #728BE6 · #007A8C · #221542

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

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#EDDCE1): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Sky (#9FC4E9): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Lavender Blue (#728BE6): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Teal (#007A8C): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Deep Indigo (#221542): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Iris 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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