Tempered Archive color palette — #EFE5D9 · #9C6900 · #34302A · #1F1304 · #0A0502

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#EFE5D9): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Ochre (#9C6900): A full-bodied, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Espresso (#34302A): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Ink (#1F1304): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Ink (#0A0502): a grounded near-black with real depth.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Archive 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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