Softworn Basin color palette — #E2F3F0 · #5BB1B7 · #007381 · #004A46 · #00171E

Teal and Cyan set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Cream (#E2F3F0): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cyan (#5BB1B7): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Teal (#007381): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Forest (#004A46): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#00171E): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn 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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