Smoked Basalt color palette — #D5E6E4 · #004A44 · #522600 · #2A1D00 · #000202

A conversation between Espresso and Forest, giving this palette its sense of optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Silver (#D5E6E4): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Forest (#004A44): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Espresso (#522600): A deep, shadowed, balanced gold — the color of old brass.
• Onyx (#2A1D00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Black (#000202): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Optimism, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury. Tagged dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Smoked Basalt 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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