Tempered Fern color palette — #E2E9E7 · #ACBDBD · #79939C · #374D00 · #08251E

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#E2E9E7): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Ash (#ACBDBD): a calm mid-gray that lets other colors speak.
• Slate Blue (#79939C): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Olive (#374D00): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Onyx (#08251E): 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 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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