Chestnut Workshop color palette — #CDE3EF · #705300 · #383033 · #00181D · #000102

A conversation between Coffee and Ink, giving this palette its sense of optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Frost (#CDE3EF): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Coffee (#705300): A full-bodied, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Espresso (#383033): a grounded near-black with real depth.
• Ink (#00181D): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Black (#000102): quiet, heavy and certain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Chestnut Workshop 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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