Gentle Basin color palette — #E9F6EB · #80C6E5 · #0078B8 · #005156 · #00173F

Cerulean and Sky set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Cream (#E9F6EB): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Sky (#80C6E5): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Cerulean (#0078B8): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Peacock (#005156): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Midnight (#00173F): A deep, shadowed, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Gentle 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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