Cerulean Basin color palette — #FBECE5 · #1B9BAA · #004F72 · #002D1B · #00001F
Built around Cerulean, softened by Peacock — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.
The five colors
- Cream (#FBECE5): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Cerulean (#1B9BAA): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
- Peacock (#004F72): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Deep Forest (#002D1B): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
- Ink (#00001F): 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 Cerulean 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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Browse the whole catalog at Explore, or see today's palette.