Shadow Alley color palette — #E6E0D0 · #4A3900 · #001392 · #210066 · #020100
A conversation between Indigo and Deep Indigo, giving this palette its sense of optimism and creativity.
The five colors
- Parchment (#E6E0D0): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Deep Olive (#4A3900): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
- Indigo (#001392): A deep, shadowed, vivid violet — the color of wild irises.
- Deep Indigo (#210066): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Black (#020100): quiet, heavy and certain.
Feels like: Optimism, Creativity, Energy, Depth, Luxury. Tagged dark.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Shadow Alley 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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