Ancient Cerulean color palette — #D4EAF8 · #0090C2 · #004966 · #002030 · #000D16

Cerulean and Navy set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#D4EAF8): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Cerulean (#0090C2): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Navy (#004966): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Midnight (#002030): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Ink (#000D16): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Calm, Sophistication. Tagged monochrome, muted, cool.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Cerulean 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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