Tempered Byzantium color palette — #D6E5DB · #008FA5 · #8848B3 · #00505D · #1C032C

Plum and Cerulean set the tone — five colors that lean into trust and stability.

The five colors

• Parchment (#D6E5DB): A whisper-light, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Cerulean (#008FA5): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Plum (#8848B3): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Peacock (#00505D): A deep, shadowed, dusty blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Deep Indigo (#1C032C): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Creativity, Balance. Tagged cool.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Byzantium 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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