Powdered Byzantium color palette — #E9E9F7 · #A61CF7 · #513657 · #1B1A31 · #010106

Orchid and Charcoal set the tone — five colors that lean into creativity and energy.

The five colors

• Frost (#E9E9F7): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Orchid (#A61CF7): A full-bodied, vivid violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Charcoal (#513657): A deep, shadowed, dusty pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Midnight (#1B1A31): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of a velvet chair.
• Black (#010106): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.

Feels like: Creativity, Energy, Balance. Tagged noir, dark, luxury, vibrant.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Powdered Byzantium 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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