Washed Basalt color palette — #E5EDE6 · #94A49C · #5E857E · #493100 · #000601

Espresso and Storm Blue set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Cream (#E5EDE6): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Taupe (#94A49C): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Storm Blue (#5E857E): A full-bodied, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Espresso (#493100): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Ink (#000601): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Washed Basalt 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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