Ancient Basin color palette — #FAF0E8 · #ADD1C1 · #537FB1 · #005B5B · #171B43
Built around Slate, softened by Deep Indigo — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.
The five colors
- Cream (#FAF0E8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Pistachio (#ADD1C1): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
- Slate (#537FB1): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Peacock (#005B5B): A full-bodied, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
- Deep Indigo (#171B43): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Calm, Sophistication. Tagged coastal, cool, light, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Basin 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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