Velvet Fern color palette — #E6E4D3 · #685C00 · #313C3D · #1E2100 · #0C0700

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

The five colors

• Parchment (#E6E4D3): A whisper-light, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Olive (#685C00): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Charcoal (#313C3D): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Onyx (#1E2100): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
• Ink (#0C0700): A deep, shadowed, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Velvet 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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