Ancient Basalt color palette — #E5E5D5 · #80B7AD · #52897B · #5C588C · #502A54
A conversation between Royal Purple and Slate, giving this palette its sense of creativity and sophistication.
The five colors
- Parchment (#E5E5D5): A whisper-light, dusty green — the color of fresh herbs.
- Mint Leaf (#80B7AD): A luminous, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
- Fern (#52897B): A full-bodied, dusty teal — the color of shallow lagoons.
- Slate (#5C588C): A full-bodied, balanced violet — the color of twilight just after sunset.
- Royal Purple (#502A54): A deep, shadowed, balanced pink — the color of peonies in June.
Feels like: Creativity, Sophistication. Tagged vintage, retro, muted.
Use it as a design system
One click turns Ancient 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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