Shadow Study color palette — #D6E3F5 · #00308F · #300045 · #170006 · #000102
Indigo and Deep Indigo set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.
The five colors
- Frost (#D6E3F5): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of a favorite pair of jeans.
- Indigo (#00308F): A deep, shadowed, vivid violet — the color of wild irises.
- Deep Indigo (#300045): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.
- Ink (#170006): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of embers at dusk.
- Black (#000102): quiet, heavy and certain.
Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Depth, Luxury. Tagged dark.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Shadow Study 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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