Ancient Basin color palette — #CBEFFD · #009EAE · #AE00A3 · #544700 · #002A2F

Orchid and Cerulean set the tone — five colors that lean into nature and growth.

The five colors

• Frost (#CBEFFD): A whisper-light, dusty blue — the color of deep harbor water.
• Cerulean (#009EAE): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Orchid (#AE00A3): A full-bodied, vivid pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Deep Olive (#544700): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Midnight (#002A2F): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Trust, Stability, Creativity, Calm. Tagged vibrant, cool.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Basin 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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