Tempered Fern color palette — #EFEFE5 · #CFD2BC · #A1AC82 · #345900 · #030300
A conversation between Deep Olive and Sage, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Cream (#EFEFE5): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Oat (#CFD2BC): A whisper-light, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Sage (#A1AC82): A luminous, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Deep Olive (#345900): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of fresh herbs.
- Ink (#030300): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication. Tagged scandi, muted, light.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Tempered 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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