Ancient Lilac color palette — #FFF1F4 · #C49DD6 · #654E4C · #38242A · #140D11

Mauve and Charcoal Brown set the tone — five colors that lean into creativity and sophistication.

The five colors

• Ivory (#FFF1F4): bright and airy, almost weightless.
• Mauve (#C49DD6): A luminous, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Charcoal Brown (#654E4C): A full-bodied, dusty orange — the color of sun-warmed clay.
• Espresso (#38242A): A deep, shadowed, dusty rose — the color of strawberry cream.
• Ink (#140D11): quiet, heavy and certain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Lilac 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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