Tempered Basin color palette — #EBE4D5 · #00726F · #00435C · #40001C · #000405

Built around Deep Indigo, softened by Teal — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Parchment (#EBE4D5): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Teal (#00726F): A full-bodied, balanced teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Navy (#00435C): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Deep Indigo (#40001C): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Ink (#000405): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Sophistication. Tagged retro, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Basin 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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