Shadow Fern color palette — #D8EADC · #56550E · #362700 · #1A0A00 · #010200

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

The five colors

• Honeydew (#D8EADC): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Deep Olive (#56550E): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Espresso (#362700): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Ink (#1A0A00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Black (#010200): 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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