Gentle Archive color palette — #F6EBE0 · #55ABE2 · #1B5CD4 · #00494F · #120739

A conversation between Cobalt and Cornflower, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Cream (#F6EBE0): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cornflower (#55ABE2): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Cobalt (#1B5CD4): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Deep Teal (#00494F): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Deep Indigo (#120739): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Gentle Archive 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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