Ancient Fern color palette — #DFE9E3 · #A2BBB1 · #7C9D97 · #605200 · #02190D
A conversation between Coffee and Ink, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Parchment (#DFE9E3): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Ash (#A2BBB1): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
- Eucalyptus (#7C9D97): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
- Coffee (#605200): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
- Ink (#02190D): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication. Tagged scandi, muted, light.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient 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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