Ancient Workshop color palette — #FDF4E7 · #CB9300 · #4D4800 · #271C0D · #090403

A conversation between Mustard and Deep Olive, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Ivory (#FDF4E7): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Mustard (#CB9300): A luminous, balanced gold — the color of old brass.
• Deep Olive (#4D4800): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Onyx (#271C0D): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Ink (#090403): a grounded near-black with real depth.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Workshop 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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