Ancient Basin color palette — #FAF4F0 · #BFE5F4 · #74AAE5 · #00816B · #282951

Cornflower and Teal set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Ivory (#FAF4F0): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Powder Blue (#BFE5F4): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Cornflower (#74AAE5): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Teal (#00816B): A full-bodied, balanced teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Deep Indigo (#282951): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.

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.

Similar palettes

• Ancient Parlor color palette (#FFF2ED, #D3DEF7, #00A6E5, #00764A, #001866)
• Weathered Terrace color palette (#FBF4ED, #C6DFEE, #A8B9EC, #009595, #44375C)
• Iris Boulevard color palette (#FCF4EB, #D3E8FF, #8288DF, #006970, #28113A)
• Cobalt Drift color palette (#FBF2F7, #8BD1E7, #367DBA, #00624D, #2E3A56)
• Antique Spruce color palette (#F7EBE8, #6FC8C7, #00728F, #004113, #000309)
• Soft Cobalt Villa color palette (#FFF2EA, #A0D4F2, #4B76CE, #00524C, #10002E)
• Dusty Denim color palette (#ECE3DD, #81AE98, #0053A3, #002C25, #010009)
• Tempered Emerald color palette (#FFF2EE, #E58595, #47AD6B, #00974C, #330A14)

Browse the whole catalog at Explore, or see today's palette.