Antique Byzantium color palette — #F8DDE2 · #9C48AC · #432B2B · #291A1E · #120A09

Orchid and Espresso set the tone — five colors that lean into creativity and sophistication.

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#F8DDE2): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Orchid (#9C48AC): A full-bodied, vivid pink — the color of neon signs at night.
• Espresso (#432B2B): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Onyx (#291A1E): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Ink (#120A09): quiet, heavy and certain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Antique 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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