Ancient Nightshade color palette — #E6E9EF · #CACAD6 · #AA9EB3 · #3F4BA0 · #111620

Indigo takes the lead with Mauve close behind in a set that reads as creativity and sophistication at first glance.

The five colors

• Frost (#E6E9EF): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Oat (#CACAD6): a calm mid-gray that lets other colors speak.
• Mauve (#AA9EB3): A luminous, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Indigo (#3F4BA0): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Ink (#111620): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Nightshade 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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