Shadow Basalt color palette — #E8DECA · #4F5B5A · #413500 · #1A2421 · #000900
A conversation between Espresso and Ink, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Bone (#E8DECA): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of old brass.
- Charcoal Brown (#4F5B5A): quiet, heavy and certain.
- Espresso (#413500): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Onyx (#1A2421): quiet, heavy and certain.
- Ink (#000900): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication, Depth, Luxury. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Shadow 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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