Ancient Cerulean color palette — #DEEAE1 · #008898 · #004255 · #00201C · #000103

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#DEEAE1): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Cerulean (#008898): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Teal (#004255): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Ink (#00201C): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Black (#000103): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, 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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