Ancient Station color palette — #DDE8DF · #298695 · #004256 · #00201D · #000103

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#DDE8DF): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Cerulean (#298695): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Teal (#004256): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Ink (#00201D): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• 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 Station 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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