Ancient Navy color palette — #E9DFD4 · #427EAC · #232692 · #001F20 · #020007

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#E9DFD4): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#427EAC): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Indigo (#232692): A deep, shadowed, vivid violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Ink (#001F20): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Black (#020007): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Navy 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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