Gentle Drift color palette — #FAE6C8 · #378CE3 · #5E4B9B · #552E00 · #260D23

Azure and Plum set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Parchment (#FAE6C8): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Azure (#378CE3): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Plum (#5E4B9B): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of wild irises.
• Espresso (#552E00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Ink (#260D23): A deep, shadowed, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Gentle Drift 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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