Ancient Cerulean color palette — #DEEAE0 · #388E98 · #004454 · #00231E · #000B14

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#DEEAE0): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#388E98): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Teal (#004454): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Onyx (#00231E): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Ink (#000B14): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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