Ancient Alley color palette — #CBEAE4 · #00746E · #00444D · #1C005C · #000707

A conversation between Deep Indigo and Teal, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Honeydew (#CBEAE4): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Teal (#00746E): A full-bodied, balanced teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Deep Teal (#00444D): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
• Deep Indigo (#1C005C): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Ink (#000707): a grounded near-black with real depth.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Sophistication. 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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