Tempered Cerulean color palette — #DCE5E8 · #8DA3B2 · #647E9D · #003F41 · #000508

Built around Slate, softened by Deep Teal — the whole palette hums with sophistication.

The five colors

• Frost (#DCE5E8): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Blue Fog (#8DA3B2): A luminous, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Slate (#647E9D): A full-bodied, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Teal (#003F41): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#000508): quiet, heavy and certain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Cerulean 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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