Ancient Fern color palette — #ECE4D2 · #A68C00 · #1A6702 · #534600 · #020200
A conversation between Olive and Mustard, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Parchment (#ECE4D2): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Mustard (#A68C00): A luminous, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Olive (#1A6702): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Deep Olive (#534600): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
- Black (#020200): a grounded near-black with real depth.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Balance. Tagged duotone.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Fern 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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