Shadow Fern color palette — #D4E6DB · #405D00 · #312A00 · #190A00 · #000201

A conversation between Olive and Espresso, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#D4E6DB): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Olive (#405D00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Espresso (#312A00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Ink (#190A00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Black (#000201): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury, Grounding. Tagged earthy, warm, dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Shadow Fern 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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