Basalt Alley color palette — #E8E1D8 · #C3B9AA · #9A917C · #523500 · #020100

A conversation between Cocoa and Gray, giving this palette its sense of optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Parchment (#E8E1D8): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Stone (#C3B9AA): A luminous, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Gray (#9A917C): A luminous, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Cocoa (#523500): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Black (#020100): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Optimism, Sophistication. Tagged scandi, muted, light.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Basalt Alley 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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