Ancient Drift color palette — #CDE6F1 · #0097A8 · #6F49B1 · #81010D · #1E2200

Built around Plum, softened by Oxblood — the whole palette hums with nature and growth.

The five colors

• Frost (#CDE6F1): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Cerulean (#0097A8): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Plum (#6F49B1): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Oxblood (#81010D): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of autumn markets.
• Onyx (#1E2200): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Trust, Stability, Creativity, Balance. Tagged warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient 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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