Softworn Alley color palette — #DFE4F4 · #8C88E3 · #785BB9 · #5C2D7A · #4C2752

Built around Cornflower Indigo, softened by Lavender Blue — the whole palette hums with creativity and balance.

The five colors

• Frost (#DFE4F4): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Lavender Blue (#8C88E3): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Cornflower Indigo (#785BB9): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.
• Royal Purple (#5C2D7A): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Royal Purple (#4C2752): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.

Feels like: Creativity, Balance. Tagged warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Alley 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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