Obsidian Basin color palette — #F8DDE8 · #6B2FB0 · #6E0205 · #1A1D00 · #000203

A conversation between Plum and Oxblood, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Rose Water (#F8DDE8): A whisper-light, dusty rose — the color of strawberry cream.
• Plum (#6B2FB0): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Oxblood (#6E0205): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of toasted spice.
• Ink (#1A1D00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Black (#000203): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Creativity, Energy, Depth, Luxury. Tagged dark.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Obsidian 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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