Ancient Cerulean color palette — #FAEDE7 · #2E8F9B · #00425E · #002414 · #000428

Cerulean and Ink set the tone — five colors that lean into nature and growth.

The five colors

• Cream (#FAEDE7): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#2E8F9B): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Navy (#00425E): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Onyx (#002414): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Ink (#000428): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Trust, Stability, Creativity, Calm. 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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