Softworn Fern color palette — #F0EAD5 · #4C575C · #5C4C00 · #121812 · #030700

Deep Olive and Ink set the tone — five colors that lean into nature and growth.

The five colors

• Parchment (#F0EAD5): A whisper-light, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Charcoal Brown (#4C575C): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Deep Olive (#5C4C00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Ink (#121812): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Ink (#030700): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Fern 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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