Powdered Cerulean color palette — #FAE9DD · #0097C5 · #004A86 · #002C2B · #02001D

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

The five colors

• Cream (#FAE9DD): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Cerulean (#0097C5): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Navy (#004A86): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Forest (#002C2B): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#02001D): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Powdered 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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