Ancient Navy color palette — #E2EFF4 · #008B93 · #003781 · #003235 · #000105

Navy and Cerulean set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Frost (#E2EFF4): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#008B93): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Navy (#003781): A deep, shadowed, balanced blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Forest (#003235): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Black (#000105): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Calm, Sophistication. Tagged duotone, muted, cool.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Navy 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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