Ancient Iris color palette — #FAF3F8 · #C8D3FF · #CA99D6 · #8698FC · #321D22
A conversation between Lavender Blue and Mauve, giving this palette its sense of creativity and balance.
The five colors
- Ivory (#FAF3F8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Lilac Frost (#C8D3FF): A whisper-light, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.
- Mauve (#CA99D6): A luminous, balanced pink — the color of neon signs at night.
- Lavender Blue (#8698FC): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
- Onyx (#321D22): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
Feels like: Creativity, Balance. Tagged duotone, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Iris 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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- Muted Hollow color palette (#F1F6FB, #D5DAF7, #E2759F, #438FD0, #180E1C)
- Tempered Lilac color palette (#FAF3F7, #E3D7D7, #C2B1A5, #A5A2E9, #4F444A)
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- Bronze Delta color palette (#FFF2EB, #DBB8EC, #CB8EBA, #B46D48, #533239)
- Patina Magenta color palette (#FFECF4, #C8B5FF, #F739DA, #9D68FF, #25001F)
- Timeworn Workshop color palette (#FAF2FB, #99C9FB, #C76C9F, #0083E1, #341D1D)
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