Ancient Indigo color palette — #D6E6FF · #8E9DE5 · #6C6DD7 · #4A4187 · #272B49
A conversation between Cornflower Indigo and Indigo, giving this palette its sense of creativity and calm.
The five colors
- Frost (#D6E6FF): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
- Cornflower (#8E9DE5): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Cornflower Indigo (#6C6DD7): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
- Indigo (#4A4187): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Midnight (#272B49): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
Feels like: Creativity, Calm, Balance. Tagged cool.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Indigo 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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