Ancient Courtyard color palette — #E8DAE3 · #008FA9 · #004067 · #002319 · #040228

A conversation between Cerulean and Navy, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Silver (#E8DAE3): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#008FA9): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Navy (#004067): A deep, shadowed, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Onyx (#002319): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#040228): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Courtyard 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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