Ancient Fern color palette — #D9F2DD · #795A00 · #425600 · #002D3C · #020100

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

The five colors

• Honeydew (#D9F2DD): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Coffee (#795A00): A full-bodied, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Deep Olive (#425600): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Midnight (#002D3C): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Black (#020100): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Optimism, Sophistication. Tagged muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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