Gentle Byzantium color palette — #F5E4E9 · #8D38B6 · #621A00 · #400059 · #040000
Plum and Royal Purple set the tone — five colors that lean into creativity and energy.
The five colors
- Rose Water (#F5E4E9): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Plum (#8D38B6): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of a velvet chair.
- Oxblood (#621A00): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
- Royal Purple (#400059): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Black (#040000): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of autumn markets.
Feels like: Creativity, Energy, Balance. Tagged duotone.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Gentle Byzantium 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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