Faded Archive color palette — #EFE4EA · #86BAD0 · #0078C9 · #005956 · #101948
Built around Royal Blue, softened by Deep Indigo — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.
The five colors
- Rose Water (#EFE4EA): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Ash (#86BAD0): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
- Royal Blue (#0078C9): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
- Peacock (#005956): A full-bodied, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
- Deep Indigo (#101948): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Calm, Balance. Tagged coastal, cool, light.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Faded Archive 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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Browse the whole catalog at Explore, or see today's palette.