Powdered Scarlet color palette — #EFE1C6 · #C93C49 · #4F4200 · #030060 · #030100

A conversation between Crimson and Deep Indigo, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#EFE1C6): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Crimson (#C93C49): A full-bodied, vivid red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Deep Olive (#4F4200): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Deep Indigo (#030060): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Black (#030100): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Creativity, Balance. Tagged retro.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Powdered Scarlet 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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