Tempered Fern color palette — #FCF4E8 · #E4DAB3 · #C9B388 · #AB8A73 · #494C00

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

The five colors

• Ivory (#FCF4E8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Wheat (#E4DAB3): A whisper-light, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Sand (#C9B388): A luminous, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Caramel (#AB8A73): A luminous, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Deep Olive (#494C00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Optimism, Sophistication, Grounding. Tagged earthy, warm, light, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered 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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