Muted Basin color palette — #FDF3ED · #D9BA98 · #824F3B · #5A2900 · #2A261F

Built around Espresso, softened by Coffee — the whole palette hums with optimism and warmth.

The five colors

• Ivory (#FDF3ED): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Sand (#D9BA98): A luminous, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Coffee (#824F3B): A full-bodied, dusty orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Espresso (#5A2900): A deep, shadowed, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Onyx (#2A261F): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Optimism, Warmth, Comfort, Sophistication. Tagged luxury, dark, muted, warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Muted Basin 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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