Softworn Cerulean color palette — #E3E4D7 · #5DC1CD · #0093AA · #006D6A · #00171F

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#E3E4D7): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cyan (#5DC1CD): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Cerulean (#0093AA): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Teal (#006D6A): A full-bodied, balanced teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#00171F): 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 Cerulean 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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