Ancient Plum color palette — #DDDEF2 · #B66DAA · #AE234D · #271B62 · #03000F

Ruby takes the lead with Dusty Rose close behind in a set that reads as creativity and balance at first glance.

The five colors

• Frost (#DDDEF2): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Dusty Rose (#B66DAA): A luminous, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Ruby (#AE234D): A full-bodied, vivid red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Deep Indigo (#271B62): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Black (#03000F): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.

Feels like: Creativity, Balance. Tagged pastel, light.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Plum 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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