Ancient Basalt color palette — #E1EDE8 · #90B1AE · #61878C · #313D00 · #081713

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

The five colors

• Cream (#E1EDE8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Ash (#90B1AE): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Storm Blue (#61878C): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Olive (#313D00): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Ink (#081713): 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 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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