Ancient Cerulean color palette — #ECF8F8 · #CEE3F8 · #87B4F0 · #0097CF · #253964

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

The five colors

• Ivory (#ECF8F8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Frost (#CEE3F8): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Sky (#87B4F0): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Cerulean (#0097CF): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Navy (#253964): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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