Worn Basalt color palette — #FAEFD5 · #4B5858 · #423A00 · #182424 · #020B00

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

The five colors

• Cream (#FAEFD5): A whisper-light, dusty gold — the color of afternoon light on wheat.
• Charcoal Brown (#4B5858): a grounded near-black with real depth.
• Deep Olive (#423A00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Onyx (#182424): quiet, heavy and certain.
• Ink (#020B00): A deep, shadowed, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Worn 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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