Worn Basalt color palette — #F9E8CF · #4B5957 · #4B3500 · #18231F · #070A00

Built around Espresso, softened by Parchment — the whole palette hums with optimism and sophistication.

The five colors

• Parchment (#F9E8CF): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Charcoal Brown (#4B5957): a grounded near-black with real depth.
• Espresso (#4B3500): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
• Onyx (#18231F): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Ink (#070A00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Worn 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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