Ancient Petrol color palette — #E2F0E6 · #008494 · #3D293D · #0C1910 · #050703

Built around Cerulean, softened by Espresso — the whole palette hums with trust and stability.

The five colors

• Honeydew (#E2F0E6): a clean, paper-quiet neutral.
• Cerulean (#008494): A full-bodied, balanced blue — the color of open sky before noon.
• Espresso (#3D293D): A deep, shadowed, dusty pink — the color of neon signs at night.
• Ink (#0C1910): A deep, shadowed, dusty teal — the color of sea glass.
• Ink (#050703): quiet, heavy and certain.

Feels like: Trust, Stability, Sophistication. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Petrol 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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