Softworn Alley color palette — #D8E8E9 · #ADBEC1 · #7C979E · #004736 · #000102

Built around Forest, softened by Slate Blue — the whole palette hums with sophistication.

The five colors

• Frost (#D8E8E9): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Ash (#ADBEC1): a calm mid-gray that lets other colors speak.
• Slate Blue (#7C979E): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Forest (#004736): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Black (#000102): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Sophistication. Tagged scandi, muted, light.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Alley 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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