Ancient Basalt color palette — #F6EFE0 · #4E5C5A · #453800 · #1A2625 · #000C00
A conversation between Deep Olive and Ink, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.
The five colors
- Cream (#F6EFE0): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
- Charcoal Brown (#4E5C5A): quiet, heavy and certain.
- Deep Olive (#453800): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
- Onyx (#1A2625): quiet, heavy and certain.
- Ink (#000C00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.
Feels like: Nature, Growth, Sophistication. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient 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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