Velvet Fern color palette — #ECDFBD · #6B6600 · #243700 · #011401 · #000303

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

The five colors

• Celadon Mist (#ECDFBD): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Olive (#6B6600): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Deep Forest (#243700): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Ink (#011401): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Black (#000303): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury. Tagged dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Velvet Fern 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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