Tempered Fern Archive color palette — #FDE2E4 · #9B6434 · #545800 · #1F2850 · #120434

A conversation between Olive and Ochre, giving this palette its sense of nature and growth.

The five colors

• Rose Water (#FDE2E4): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of late-summer berries.
• Ochre (#9B6434): A full-bodied, balanced gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Olive (#545800): A full-bodied, balanced green — the color of a quiet forest floor.
• Midnight (#1F2850): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of wild irises.
• Deep Indigo (#120434): A deep, shadowed, balanced violet — the color of a velvet chair.

Feels like: Nature, Growth, Optimism, Creativity, Balance. Tagged vintage, retro, muted.

Use it as a design system

One click turns Tempered Fern Archive 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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