Ancient Mustard color palette — #FFF2D5 · #D1A600 · #7A5D00 · #312200 · #020100
A conversation between Gold and Olive, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Custard (#FFF2D5): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Gold (#D1A600): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
- Olive (#7A5D00): A full-bodied, balanced gold — the color of old brass.
- Espresso (#312200): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
- Black (#020100): quiet, heavy and certain.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Optimism, Balance. Tagged monochrome, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Mustard 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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