Shadow Fern Basin color palette — #C5E8DC · #455500 · #00454A · #2A0035 · #000201
A conversation between Deep Olive and Deep Indigo, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Honeydew (#C5E8DC): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
- Deep Olive (#455500): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Deep Teal (#00454A): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
- Deep Indigo (#2A0035): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
- Black (#000201): quiet, heavy and certain.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Trust, Stability, Creativity, Sophistication. Tagged dark, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Shadow Fern Basin 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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- Lowlit Studio color palette (#EFDFE6, #763B00, #004549, #220043, #040002)
- Fern Summit color palette (#CFE7DA, #514A00, #00282F, #170005, #000201)
- Smoked Lagoon color palette (#EFE3CD, #443600, #2A0077, #12003F, #030200)
- Mulberry Quarry color palette (#E4DCF1, #87006C, #004257, #300026, #020006)
- Shadow Olive color palette (#ECDDC5, #7C8000, #005322, #00100E, #000102)
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