Ancient Fern color palette — #E8F1EE · #BFD0CD · #85A8A6 · #426000 · #20322D

A conversation between Olive and Blue Fog, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Cream (#E8F1EE): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Oat (#BFD0CD): soft and architectural.
• Blue Fog (#85A8A6): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Olive (#426000): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Deep Forest (#20322D): 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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