Ancient Balcony color palette — #EEE2DE · #E0596F · #8B3800 · #86002D · #050100

A conversation between Scarlet and Wine, giving this palette its sense of optimism and warmth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#EEE2DE): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Scarlet (#E0596F): A luminous, vivid red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Burnt Sienna (#8B3800): A full-bodied, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Wine (#86002D): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Black (#050100): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.

Feels like: Optimism, Warmth, Comfort, Balance. Tagged duotone, warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Balcony 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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