Washed Basalt color palette — #F8E6E9 · #8E6244 · #384500 · #231B3F · #120B2A

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

The five colors

• Rose Water (#F8E6E9): A whisper-light, dusty red — the color of embers at dusk.
• Walnut (#8E6244): A full-bodied, dusty gold — the color of honey in a jar.
• Deep Olive (#384500): A deep, shadowed, balanced green — the color of new leaves after rain.
• Deep Indigo (#231B3F): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
• Ink (#120B2A): A deep, shadowed, dusty violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.

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

Use it as a design system

One click turns Washed Basalt 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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• Inked Basalt Bloom color palette (#F5E1D5, #6B5522, #323E00, #001722, #010020)
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