Ancient Plum color palette — #F5DDE0 · #9D569A · #4B2326 · #201113 · #0A0507

A conversation between Slate and Espresso, giving this palette its sense of creativity and sophistication.

The five colors

• Shell Pink (#F5DDE0): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Slate (#9D569A): A full-bodied, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
• Espresso (#4B2326): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of a theater curtain.
• Ink (#201113): A deep, shadowed, dusty red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Ink (#0A0507): quiet, heavy and certain.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Ancient Plum 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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