Softworn Cerulean color palette — #F4E9E3 · #1C869C · #00405F · #00201B · #000106
A conversation between Cerulean and Navy, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.
The five colors
- Cream (#F4E9E3): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Cerulean (#1C869C): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
- Navy (#00405F): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Ink (#00201B): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
- Black (#000106): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
Feels like: Trust, Stability, Sophistication. Tagged coastal, cool, light, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Softworn 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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