Tempered Drift color palette — #DCE3F9 · #9A80E7 · #A547D6 · #8B0085 · #360021
A conversation between Orchid and Plum, giving this palette its sense of creativity and energy.
The five colors
- Frost (#DCE3F9): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Wisteria (#9A80E7): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.
- Orchid (#A547D6): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Plum (#8B0085): A full-bodied, vivid pink — the color of peonies in June.
- Deep Indigo (#360021): A deep, shadowed, balanced rose — the color of pressed rose petals.
Feels like: Creativity, Energy. Tagged vibrant.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Tempered Drift 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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