Ancient Indigo color palette — #FDF4E7 · #DCB880 · #45B59D · #6474CD · #5D212C
Built around Cornflower Indigo, softened by Turquoise — the whole palette hums with optimism and creativity.
The five colors
- Ivory (#FDF4E7): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
- Sand (#DCB880): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Turquoise (#45B59D): A luminous, balanced teal — the color of sea glass.
- Cornflower Indigo (#6474CD): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Mulberry (#5D212C): A deep, shadowed, balanced red — the color of late-summer berries.
Feels like: Optimism, Creativity, Balance. Tagged cool.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient Indigo 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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