Ancient Plum color palette — #E6DCE7 · #B52950 · #004227 · #53001C · #000201

Built around Ruby, softened by Espresso — the whole palette hums with nature and growth.

The five colors

• Silver (#E6DCE7): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Ruby (#B52950): A full-bodied, vivid red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Forest (#004227): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Espresso (#53001C): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Black (#000201): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Balance. Tagged duotone.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Plum 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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