Softworn Iris Basin color palette — #EFF1FF · #D6C4FA · #8B72BD · #4F3E71 · #181A35

A conversation between Slate Blue and Royal Purple, giving this palette its sense of creativity and sophistication.

The five colors

• Ivory (#EFF1FF): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Lilac Frost (#D6C4FA): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Slate Blue (#8B72BD): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.
• Royal Purple (#4F3E71): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Midnight (#181A35): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.

Feels like: Creativity, Sophistication. Tagged monochrome, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Iris Basin 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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