Velvet Basalt color palette — #DBF3FF · #004259 · #551D00 · #281D00 · #000103

Espresso and Deep Teal set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#DBF3FF): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Deep Teal (#004259): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Espresso (#551D00): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Onyx (#281D00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Black (#000103): a grounded near-black with real depth.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Velvet 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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