Softworn Basin color palette — #E2EADD · #008E76 · #004D49 · #00241C · #010200

Fern and Forest set the tone — five colors that lean into calm and sophistication.

The five colors

• Parchment (#E2EADD): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Fern (#008E76): A full-bodied, balanced teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Forest (#004D49): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of glacier melt.
• Onyx (#00241C): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
• Black (#010200): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Calm, Sophistication. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Softworn Basin 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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