Ancient Alley color palette — #EDE3D3 · #008E4D · #004D4D · #310036 · #000201
A conversation between Fern and Deep Indigo, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Parchment (#EDE3D3): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
- Fern (#008E4D): A full-bodied, balanced teal — the color of glacier melt.
- Forest (#004D4D): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
- Deep Indigo (#310036): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of a candy shop window.
- Black (#000201): quiet, heavy and certain.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Creativity, Balance. Tagged retro, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Alley 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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