Softworn Amber color palette — #C5E7ED · #D87900 · #004942 · #001B18 · #000403

Built around Mustard, softened by Forest — the whole palette hums with optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Frost (#C5E7ED): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Mustard (#D87900): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Forest (#004942): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#001B18): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#000403): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Optimism, Sophistication. Tagged luxury, dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Amber 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.

Similar palettes

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• Washed Apricot Parlor color palette (#EAF3FE, #EF9B79, #315589, #19283B, #050D18)
• Softworn Scarlet Ridge color palette (#D6E6F7, #D43520, #002B4F, #291F25, #000816)
• Chestnut Alley color palette (#DBF0F9, #8B3F00, #383034, #00181B, #000102)
• Onyx Corridor color palette (#D6E5FA, #915A00, #001457, #1A111C, #000112)
• Tempered Station color palette (#EEFCD4, #C9CD00, #006A40, #002614, #010100)
• Ultramarine Drift color palette (#D6F4F8, #00AD90, #0058B1, #005A49, #00030D)

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