Ancient Basin color palette — #EEDCE7 · #5C99AB · #004C80 · #003125 · #0C0244

Deep Indigo and Peacock set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#EEDCE7): A whisper-light, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Storm Blue (#5C99AB): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Peacock (#004C80): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Forest (#003125): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Deep Indigo (#0C0244): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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