Gentle Cobalt color palette — #ECDDE5 · #00AEA7 · #1483D2 · #823000 · #001A1F

A conversation between Azure and Rust, giving this palette its sense of trust and stability.

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#ECDDE5): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Turquoise (#00AEA7): A luminous, balanced teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Azure (#1483D2): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Rust (#823000): A full-bodied, balanced orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Ink (#001A1F): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Optimism, Balance. Tagged retro.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Gentle Cobalt 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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