Ancient Lilac color palette — #FFF1F5 · #E4D7D2 · #C8C1B6 · #B498DE · #51383D
A conversation between Mauve and Charcoal, giving this palette its sense of creativity and sophistication.
The five colors
- Ivory (#FFF1F5): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Bone (#E4D7D2): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Stone (#C8C1B6): soft and architectural.
- Mauve (#B498DE): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Charcoal (#51383D): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
Feels like: Creativity, Sophistication, Softness, Clarity. Tagged pastel, light, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Lilac 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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