Ancient Fern color palette — #E3EBE7 · #C2CECD · #8AAAB1 · #575A00 · #0A1913

Built around Olive, softened by Blue Fog — the whole palette hums with nature and growth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#E3EBE7): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Oat (#C2CECD): a calm mid-gray that lets other colors speak.
• Blue Fog (#8AAAB1): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Olive (#575A00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Ink (#0A1913): 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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