Velvet Basalt color palette — #F3E5D6 · #485651 · #4E2D00 · #17201B · #060700

Espresso and Ink set the tone — five colors that lean into optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Parchment (#F3E5D6): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Charcoal Brown (#485651): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Espresso (#4E2D00): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Onyx (#17201B): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Ink (#060700): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Velvet Basalt 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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