Ancient Navy color palette — #EDE3D8 · #4E86B3 · #272E87 · #002223 · #0F0022

Built around Indigo, softened by Cerulean — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Parchment (#EDE3D8): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Cerulean (#4E86B3): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Indigo (#272E87): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Onyx (#002223): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#0F0022): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Navy 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.

Similar palettes

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• Nocturne Onyx Garden color palette (#CBF6F6, #006D85, #003155, #060058, #0B0022)
• Weathered Courtyard color palette (#F1E5E9, #78A5CF, #4E6CCF, #005B68, #0B0026)
• Ancient Mulberry color palette (#DEF1FF, #9E88DD, #9B446E, #003438, #020B27)
• Powdered Petrol color palette (#FDEAE2, #62C1D0, #0070A0, #005235, #1A2B55)
• Inked Basin color palette (#E3EDFB, #384DD7, #001F6C, #02002E, #00010A)
• Pale Summit color palette (#F8E3F8, #004DA2, #5C3300, #001F48, #0C0400)

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