Shadow Courtyard color palette — #ECDCD8 · #6E6500 · #003B33 · #1A001E · #010200

A conversation between Olive and Ink, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Bone (#ECDCD8): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Olive (#6E6500): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Deep Forest (#003B33): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Ink (#1A001E): A deep, shadowed, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Black (#010200): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Creativity, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury. Tagged retro, dark, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Shadow Courtyard 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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