Ancient Chestnut color palette — #F4E4C9 · #6B5A00 · #00446C · #002944 · #0D0002

A conversation between Olive and Navy, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#F4E4C9): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Olive (#6B5A00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Navy (#00446C): A deep, shadowed, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Midnight (#002944): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Ink (#0D0002): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Trust, Stability, Sophistication. Tagged jewel, vibrant, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Chestnut 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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