Smoked Aubergine color palette — #FDE8D8 · #5E2D00 · #300066 · #1B0016 · #040000

A conversation between Royal Purple and Cocoa, giving this palette its sense of optimism and creativity.

The five colors

• Cream (#FDE8D8): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Cocoa (#5E2D00): A deep, shadowed, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Royal Purple (#300066): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Ink (#1B0016): A deep, shadowed, dusty pink — the color of neon signs at night.
• Black (#040000): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of autumn markets.

Feels like: Optimism, Creativity, Depth, Luxury. Tagged jewel, vibrant, dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Smoked Aubergine 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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