Ancient Alley color palette — #E9F8FF · #00A5BF · #D54900 · #006879 · #671F00

Built around Terracotta, softened by Cyan — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Ivory (#E9F8FF): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cyan (#00A5BF): A luminous, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Terracotta (#D54900): A full-bodied, vivid orange — the color of autumn markets.
• Peacock (#006879): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Rust (#671F00): A deep, shadowed, balanced orange — the color of autumn markets.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Balance. Tagged warm.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Alley 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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