Velvet Onyx color palette — #FCE7CA · #4A3300 · #002F3F · #14003E · #030100

Deep Indigo and Espresso set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and creativity.

The five colors

• Parchment (#FCE7CA): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Espresso (#4A3300): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Midnight (#002F3F): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Indigo (#14003E): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.
• Black (#030100): a grounded near-black with real depth.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Velvet Onyx 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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