Velvet Onyx color palette — #DFEEE7 · #003F56 · #4F0013 · #160D00 · #000201

Espresso and Deep Teal set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Honeydew (#DFEEE7): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Deep Teal (#003F56): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Espresso (#4F0013): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Ink (#160D00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Black (#000201): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury. Tagged jewel, vibrant, dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Velvet Onyx 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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