Ancient Driftwood color palette — #FAE9E4 · #B46B6C · #553200 · #281B16 · #100B0B

Built around Mocha, softened by Cocoa — the whole palette hums with optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Rose Water (#FAE9E4): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Mocha (#B46B6C): A luminous, balanced red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Cocoa (#553200): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Onyx (#281B16): A deep, shadowed, dusty orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Ink (#100B0B): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Optimism, Sophistication. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Driftwood 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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