Softworn Lantern color palette — #E4E4EC · #C5C0D7 · #AC9EBA · #7741A6 · #1E1E2A

Plum and Mauve set the tone — five colors that lean into creativity and sophistication.

The five colors

• Frost (#E4E4EC): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Stone (#C5C0D7): A luminous, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.
• Mauve (#AC9EBA): A luminous, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Plum (#7741A6): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Onyx (#1E1E2A): 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 Softworn Lantern 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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