Dusty Basin color palette — #D9E2D8 · #8BB5DB · #5A79E7 · #006B79 · #17003F

Built around Periwinkle, softened by Deep Indigo — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Bone (#D9E2D8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Sky (#8BB5DB): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Periwinkle (#5A79E7): A luminous, vivid violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Peacock (#006B79): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Indigo (#17003F): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Dusty 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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